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Studen s cross Massachusetts Avenue at the newly re-opened crosswalk in front of Building 7 yesterday afternoon.This weekend, Massachusetts Avenue will be closed tovehicular traffic between Albany and Vassar Streets ascrews remove the railroad tracks to install a water main.

The eatherToday: Cloudy, mild, 45°F (70C)

Tonight: Mostly cloudy, 35°F (2°C)Tomorrow: Partly cloudy, 46°F (SoC)

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IT Admits 1,632 ApplicantsFor Freshman Class of 2005

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By Eun J. leeASSOCIATE FEATURES EDITOR

The recent admittance of theincoming class of 2005 is a harbin-ger of a new generation of nerdswho will make MIT proud.

Only 16 percent of the 10,511students who applied to be part ofthe fall 2001 freshman class, or1,632 students, were admitted.

The newest MIT students-to-become f om a wide range of geo-graphic and ethnic backgrounds.

"We look for the best students ofour kind in the world. Some are intel-lectuals, some are doers, but all have .expressed self-initiative in their ownways," said Marilee Jones, Dean ofAdmissions. "Self-initiative is a key

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characteristic of MIT students."An estimated 750 admitted stu-

dents will attend Campus PreviewWeekend, which begins Thursdayand is open to all admitted students.

"CPW is a key enrollmentevent," said Jones. "MIT studentsalways make the best recruiters."

At 1,000 students, the target sizefor the class of 2005 is the same asthe target for last year. This year,fewer applicants were admitted inhopes that new improvements infinancial aid packages will increasethe yield of matriculants.

"This year's changes in financialaid should help us a lot becauseover the years we had gotten lesscompetitive in our financial aid

offers relative to our need-basedpeers," Jones said.

Outreach programs for incomingfreshmen include overnight trips withstudent hosts for anyone who wantsto visit the campus. Also, applicantsare contacted throughout the year bystudents and alumni in their regionwho can answer questions for them.

Underrepresented minority stu-dents (including American Indians,Black, Mexican, and Puerto RicanAmericans) are invited to visit MITin the fall.

"We have tried to be conserva-tive in the number of admitted stu-dents. We don't want too many sothat we can prevent overcrowding,"said Bette Johnson, AssociateDirector of Admissions. "The waitlist will be an instrument to finetune this process."

Wolpert Discusses Iihrary SystemWith Undergraduate AssociationBy Shankar MukherjiASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Ann J. Wolpert, MIT's Directorof Libraries, gave a comprehensivereport regarding the status of theInstitute's library system at theUndergraduate Association Councilmeeting last night.

Wolpert is currently serving herfifth year as the head administratorof the university's libraries.

In her presentation, Wolpert out-lined the need to balance the desiresof the student body against the reali-

ty of MIT's tight space situation."We must work within pro-

foundly constrained facilities and ...with projects such as the Stata Cen-ter, the construction pipeline isfull," said Wolpert.

Still, according to Wolpert,efforts are underway to respond tostudents' needs.

Wolpert highlighted the resultsof a survey distributed to the studentbody.

Wolpert said that "students askedfor longer [library operating] hours,

comfortable and varied study space,more online full-text resources, andmore books," among other things.

"The survey showed that MITstudents are fairly sophisticated con-sumers of library services," Wolpertsaid.

As a short-term response to thestudent body's expressed needs,Wolpert said that the library systemplans "to install a 24-hour studyspace in Building 14 by the 2002

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Bands Selected for Spring WeekendThe Roots, Blues Traveller Chosen for Show Based on Results of Online SurveyBy A.S. Wang

The Johnson Athletic Center willplay host to the famous pop bandBlues Traveller and the hip-hopband The Roots on Friday, April 27.

The concert is the main event ofMIT's Spring Weekend.

"It is essentially a double bill,"aid Sonia Garg '02, Spring Concert

co-chair.This year's Spring Weekend

activities are made possible by adramatic increase in funding com-pared to previous years. Most of thisfunding has been provided by theUndergraduate Association and

Graduate Student Council.In addition to the star-studded

concert line-up, Spring Weekendwill include new activities such asthe "Odyssey Ball" and the revivalof some old traditions, such as the"Mr. MIT" pageant.

Spring Weekend is bound toattract "a much larger audience andhopes to bring together the entireMIT campus," said SatwiksaiSeshasai '01, chair of the 2001Spring Weekend Committee.

Bands reflect student preferencesUsing an on-line poll released

in December that surveyed the

music preferences of over 800 MITstudents, the Spring WeekendCommittee has put together a showthat is consistent with what MITstudents requested: hip-hop androck music.

"We have been able to puttogether a truly diverse show thatbest fits MIT students' preferences,"said Spring Weekend Concert Co-chair CliffH. Hodges '02.

The concert is going to openwith Pru, a female hip-hop vocalistwho travels with The Roots. After-wards, both Blues Traveller and the

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Early action numbers stay steadyFive hundred eighty-eight stu-

Clifford G. ShullProfessor Emeritus

Clifford G. Shull, a obelPrize winner in physics in1994, passed away Satur-day after a short illness. Hewas 85 years old

....hull wa the kind ofperson that made youthink, 'if everybody in theworld were like this, itwould be a much easierplace to get along in, amuch nicer place," saidShull's former advisee,Anthony C. Nunes '64.

Shull "was a wonderfulcolleague with a wry senseof humor," said Dean forResearch 1. David Litster.

hun is perhaps be tknown as the co-recipientof the 1994 obel Prize inphysi s, along with Pro-fessor Bertram S. Brock-house of McMaster Uni-versity in Canada, for hispioneering re earch into thermal neutron scattering.

hull went to Oak Ridge ational Laboratory in 1946, where heand the late Ernest Wollan developed ways to use neutrons producedby nuclear reactors to gain information about the position of hydro-gen in organic molecules. "He went to Oak Ridge immediately afterthe war and literally tarted the field of neutron diffraction," or send-ing neutrons into matter, unes aid.

tudying neutron scattering shows a pects of molecular tmcture,such as hydrogen bonding in a protein, that X-ray cannot show,

unes aid. "It was very fundamental work that paved the way for anumber of other obel Prize winners in which the data was based on

MIT NEffS OFFICE

Professor Emeritus Clifford G. Shull,co-reeiplent of the :1994 Nobel Prizein physics, died Saturday, March3:1. He was 85.

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Dr. DavidBaltimoredelivered the2001 Hugheslecture.

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Comics ARTSThe MIT Symphony Orche tra per-formed works from Bartok, Hin-demith, Copland, and Ravel.

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president issued firm but nonthreat-ening statements. His senior aideremained in the hadow, offeringno sugge tion that the admini tra-tion ha moved to cri is footing.

"Our prioritie are the promptand safe return of the crew, and thereturn of the aircraft without furtherdamaging or tampering," the pre i-dent said. 'The fir t step hould beimmediate access by our embas ypersonnel to our crew members. Iam troubled by the lack of a timelyChinese re ponse to our request forthi access.'

Holding out the po sibility thatthe future of the U.S.-Chine e rela-tion hip under his administrationwa at take, however, Bush added:

"Failure of the Chinese govern-ment to react promptly to ourrequest i inconsi tent with standarddiplomatic practice, and with theexpres ed de ire of both our coun-tries for better relations."

One White House official saidBush was trying to make clear whathe expected of China, "but also givethe Chinese time to get to the rightdecision."

"The Chine e political leader-ship knows we have a lot of impor-tant work to do together, withoutthis burdening the relationship," theofficial added.

tions to candidates and partie .Twelve Republicans joined all

but three Democrats in support ofthe legislation, a high water markin years of efforts by the bill'sbackers to build a bipartisan coali-tion in the face of adamant opposi-tion from the Senate's GOP leader-ship. Five Republicans who had notpreviously voted for the bill backedit this time.

The legislation now goes to theHouse, where foes promise a toughfight but predict it will pass, as it didin 1998 and 1999. Although Presi-dent Bush opposed key provisionsof the McCain-Feingold bill, he hassignaled he might sign the legisla-tion, warning Congress not to sendhim a bill it did not want to seeenacted.

White House spokesman ScottMcClellan reiterated Monday nightthat the president intends to "lookat" the legislation once it reaches his

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Seeming to make the same point,Tang said that "the merican sidehas explained time and again to ourambas ador that this incident willnot influence the general interestbetween China and the United

tate ."The row represents the gravest

te t to U.S.-Chinese relations in twoyear since A TO's mistakenbombing of the Chinese Embassy inBelgrade, Yugoslavia. That eventparked a wave of violent anti-

American prote ts across China.Despite Chinese anger over the

collision however, reaction on thestreet remained muted, with norepeat of the rock-throwing anddemonstrating seen two years ago.

U. . officials were concernedthat the Chinese would start exam-ining the hobbled EP-3 reconnais-sance plane, which is laden withsome of the U.S. avy's mostadvanced electronic eavesdroppingequipment.

Beijing insisted that the UnitedStates was at fault for the collisionand that the "proper arrangements"had been made to take care of the 24American crew members. The pilotof the Chinese jet involved in thecollision remained missing after hisF-8 crashed as a result of the inci-dent, the government said.

Senate OKs Campaign OverhaulcCain-Feingoldow Heads to House;

Bush May Sign Bill

desk. "He looks forward to signinga campaign finance bill thatimproves the current system,"McClellan said.

But Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and groups that oppose the leg-islation are already planning a law-suit to challenge the bill'sconstitutionality, principally ongrounds that its constraints onspending for advocacy advertisingviolates free-speech protections ofthe First Amendment. The bill, hesaid, is "fatally unconstitutional."

Sponsors of the bill are pushingto have it passed and signed intolaw in time for the 2002 elections,when control of the Senate andHouse will be up for grabs.

"1 asked at the start of thisdebate for my colleagues to take arisk for America," McCain said asthe vote approached. "I will go tomy grave deeply grateful for thehonor of being part of it."

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By Henry Chuand James GerstenzangLOS ANGELES nMES

BEIJING

Two dozen crew members of adowned merican py plane wereheld incommunicado in China Tues-day morning a Pre ident Bu hdemanded that U. S. official begiven prompt access to them andthat their airplane be returned "with-out any further tampering. '

A dawn broke over HainanIsland, where the plane limped to aafe landing after a midair collisionunday morning with a Chinese

fighter jet, three U.S. official werewaiting to visit the crew. Officials inWashington said they had beenpromised that the meeting wouldtake place by the end ofthe day.

The encounter between the twoairplanes over the outh China Seabrought the Bush administration tothe cusp of its first foreign policycrisis. Tensions grew as the hoursticked by and Chinese officials pro-hibited the diplomats from visitingthe crew.

But China's foreign minister,Tang Jiaxuan, said he hoped an"adequate solution" could be foundto the dispute.

The Bush administration took adeliberately low-key approach. The

By Helen DewarTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASmNGTO

The Senate on Mondayapproved the first major overhaul ofthe nation's scandal-ridden cam-paign finance system in a quartercentury, breaking a nearly decade-long impasse that thwarted efforts toreduce the influence of big money inAmerican politics.

Voting 59-41, the Senate passedlegislation ponsored by Sens. JohnMcCain (R-Ariz.) and Russell D.Feingold (D-Wis.) to ban unrestrict-ed "soft money" contributions topolitical parties, restrict end-of-cam-paign advertising by outside groupsand raise limits on direct contribu-

THE WA3HINGTON POST

s President Bush prepares to reveal the fine print of hi vision ofgovernment in his fir t budget, his administration ha decided to cur-tail - or redefine - policies that were hallmarks of the Clintonyears. They include efforts to low nuclear proliferation, coordinatehealth care for the uninsured and put more police on the treets.

The $1.9 trillion spending plan the president is to i sue in a weekalso will pare recent government initiative to con erve energy, spureconomic development in poor communities and train doctors atchildren's hospitals. Tho e and other budgetary details have beengleaned in recent days by congre sional taff member, advocacygroups and other budget-watchers and were confirmed by admini -tration sources.

While Bush's aides have been reticent to discus the budget pub-licly, they have concluded that they can trim a variety of programsthat they consider ineffective or duplicative - or that have receivedgenerous increases in the recent past. The shifts are necessary to meetthe president's goal of limiting the growth of domestic spending to 4percent next year to make room for his main domestic objective: $1.6trillion in tax cuts over the next decade.

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Humbled by Mars, A A is about to send another spacecraft tostudy it.

The launch of the 2001 Mars Ody sey orbiter, set for Saturday, isthe first since the agency was staggered by 1999's back-to-back fail-ures of missions to the planet. And it is the first ars craft to be dis-patched since the ational Aeronautics and Space Administrationdra tically revamped the program based on multiple investigations ofwhat went wrong.

"The que tion on everyone's mind now is: 'I it going to work?' "said George Pace, Odyssey project manager at the Jet PropulsionLaboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which manages the Mars program for

ASA. "It's got to work."Rather than merely fixing the problems that killed previous mis-

sions, he said, 'We've been trying to anticipate and prevent" a longlist of other risks.

Although the Odyssey - designed to map the chemical and min-eral makeup of the Martian surface - was too far along in develop-ment for radical redesign, an outside "red team" reviewed it and rec-ommended 144 changes in hardware, software and testingprocedures, said Scott Hubbard, ASA's Mars program director. Allof them have been addressed in some fashion, managers said.

Fox Seeks Tax Sys em OverhaulTHE WASHINGTO r POST

President Vicente Fox is proposing a broad overhaul of Mexico'sineffective tax system to generate billions of new dollars for govern-ment spending by cracking down on evaders and broadening the taxbase.

Fox's tax reform proposal, which he will submit to Congress asearly as Tuesday, is the most ambitious effort at tax reform here indecades and the central pillar of Fox's economic agenda.

"There will be no money to finance their very ambitious programsunless they implement a massive tax reform," said Denise Dre ser,who teache political science at Mexico's Autonomous Institute ofTechnology. She aid the economic success of Fox's six-year termmay be determined by his ability to pas tax reform.

Fox is counting on a restructured tax system to provide revenue topay for hi promi ed increases in education, health and other socialprograms. He hopes to raise 14 billion - the equivalent of 2.2 per-cent of the gross domestic product - in the next year and another 4percent to 5 percent of the GDP in the next five years.

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Spring BlockerBy Greg lawsonSTAFF METEOROLOGIST

It's now spring, Daylight Savings time is here, April has started ... allsigns are pointing to milder ew England weather.

So where is it? Well, things are not as abnormal as they seem. Sunday'snow flurries were not just an April Fools' joke; the average date for the lastfreeze in Boston is April 8. However, the normal high temperatures forBoston in early April are in the low 50s (lO-11°C), and we've been averag-ing about 10 degree below that for over a week now.

A persi tent upper-level trough is to blame. The jet stream has consistentlydipped south of ew England for the last week, thereby keeping us in a pool ofcold air. It has been slow to move eastward primarily because of a persistenthigh pressure sy tern, a ''blocking'' high, which is itting over the mid-Atlantic.

It looks like this trough will continue to keep temperatures cooler thannormal until Friday at the earliest, though there will at least be some warmingback into the upper 40s (8-9°C). High pre sure builds into ew Englandtomorrow and Wednesday, which will both dry out the air and help move thetrough along. Temperatures by the weekend could reach into the 60s (16-17°C), though it currently looks like rain might be accompanying the warmth.

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Milosevic Could Face 'Ireason;U S. Continues to Provide AidBy R. Jeffrey SmithTHE WASHINGTON POST

BELGRADE

Yugoslav pro ecutors aid Mon-day that charges against formerpresident lobodan Milosevic, whowas arrested unday for allegedabuse of power, could be expandedto include more serious crimes, pos-sibly including treason, suggestingthat ilosevic could face a longprison term.

Police investigators leveled anew charge against Milosevic -inciting an armed rebellion by secu-rity guards at his residence over theweekend. Officials also said theyanticipate other indictments in com-ing weeks and months, possiblyincluding an allegation of treason

punishable by 20 years in prison.In Washington ecretary of

State olin Powell ruled that, withilo evics arrest, the Belgrade

government had shown enoughcooperation with InternationalCriminal Tribunal for the FonnerYugoslavia in The Hague for U.S.economic support to continue.Efforts to arrest Milosevic, who hasbeen indicted by the tribunal oncharges stemming from the 1999war in Kosovo, began only hoursbefore a March 31 deadline set byCongress for Yugoslavia to demon-strate cooperation or face the loss ofU.S. aid.

State Department spokesmanRichard Boucher called on Belgradeto tum Milosevic over to the tribunal

for trial on war crimes charge .Boucher said, ho ever, that Milose-vic s extradition would be only onefactor the administration considerswhen deciding whether to support anupcoming conference of majordonor called to help rebuild thecountry's war-devasted economy, atwhich Yugoslavia is hoping to raise

1 billion."It remains our goal to see him

face justice in The Hague," Bouchersaid. "We should be ab olutely clearthat we want that to take place soon-er rather than later. But the overallstandard we will use in looking atthe donors' conference is whetherthey continue to make progress ontheir commitments toward fullcooperation with the tribunal."

Violence Escalates in Gaza StripBy Lee HockstaderTHE WASHINGTON POST

JERUSALEM

Around the biblical town ofBethlehem, Israeli troops and Pales-tinian gunmen battled with tanks,machine guns, missiles andgrenades Monday, rattling windowsin nearby Jerusalem and stoppingpedestrians in their tracks.

In the Gaza Strip near the Egypt-ian border, Israeli helicopter gun-ships fired three wire-guided mis-siles at a Palestinian Islamicmilitant, obliterating the pickuptruck he was driving and killing himin the latest in a string of assassina-tions by Israeli forces.

The fatal shooting of an Israelisoldier by a Palestinian snipertouched off the Bethlehem fighting,the Israeli army announced. It wasthe second such Israeli casualty in

as many days. A sniper killed anIsraeli soldier late Sunday in anexchange of fire near the Palestiniancity of ablus in the central WestBank.

Even after six months of contin-uous bloodshed, the crescendo ofviolence and revenge in Gaza andthe West Bank seemed to be build-ing Monday; Palestinians andIsraelis alike braced for more.

Israel Prime Minister ArielSharon's hard-line government saidit has abandoned a policy ofrestraint that it said had been inforce until now and henceforth willshow no mercy in striking Palestin-ian sources of terrorism and vio-lence.

The Palestinians issued a bitterattack on the Bush administrationfor having "disengaged" from theMiddle East conflict, which they

said gave Israel a green light tospurn negotiations "and to pursue apolicy of escalation."

Since the Palestinian uprisingbegan last fall, 457 people havebeen killed - 375 Palestinians, 63Israeli Jews and 19 others.

More than 2,000 Palestinianmourners chanted "revenge,revenge" Monday as they marchedbehind the body of 28-year-oldMohammed Abdelal, who waskilled by the Israeli attack in Gazawith missiles guided by wires con-necting them to the helicopters fromwhich they are fired. A member ofthe fighting force of Islamic Jihad amilitant group that has carried outbombings and other attacks againstIsraeli targets for years, Abdelal hadbeen a prisoner in Israeli and Pales-tinian jails. His corpse was drapedin a red blanket.

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ew Policy Limits Phone allsBy Federal Prison Inmate

THE WASHINGTON POST

Federal prison inmates will be limited to 300 minutes of tele-phone calls per month under a new policy launched Monday by theU. . Bureau of Prisons, which is hoping to crack down on abuse ofphone privileges by some pri oners.

But critics say the new policy, which applies to more than140,000 inmates in the federal prison system, will only further isolatecriminals from family and friends, contributing to recidivism.

Previously, federal inmates could make unlimited telephone callsand pay for them from per onal debit accounts, which include moneyearned in prison or sent by relatives. Each prisoner also was permit-ted 120 minutes per month in collect caJls.

The new rules limit all telephone calls to 300 minutes per month,regardless of who pays the bill. The limit does not include calls madeto defense attorneys or other legal advisers.

Traci Billingsley, a Bureau of Prisons spokeswoman, said that 75percent of federal prisoners already use phones less than 300 minutesper month. Placing limits on the rest will help control attempts bysome inmates to run drug rings or other criminal operations fromprison, she said.

"There have been some instances in the past of inmates abusingthe phones, using them for illegal or disruptive purposes," Billingsleysaid.

Air Force General Could GetJoint Chief Chairman's Job

NEWSDAY

Air Force Gen. Ralph "Ed" Eberhart, a Vietnam combat pilot whorose to be the nation's top space warrior, has emerged as the leadingcandidate to be President Bush's next chairman of the Joint Chiefs ofStaff, according to senior military officials.

Eberhart, chief of both the U.S. Space Command and NorthAmerican Aerospace Defense Command (Norad), has become thebetting favorite among senior military commanders as the replace-ment for Army Gen. Hugh Shelton, who is expected to retire as thepresident's top military adviser after his second term ends this sum-mer.

Bush's plan for a missile defense system for the United States,Canada and European allies needs an aggressive supporter in uni-form, and Eberhart has emerged as an ardent supporter. While Shel-ton and chiefs of the Army, avy and Air Force have backed theBush program, they are against any deployment until a proven systemis developed. A series of failures has undercut missile defense ambi-tions, as tracking, intercepting and destroying a single warhead hasproved too difficult after more than a decade of testing.

As a result, missile defense has been on the back burner for themilitary chiefs, who view acquisitions of new jet fighters, bombers,warships and other weapons as more important to national security.

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attention wa focu ed on propo ed change to tudent pace on future. The Campu ctivitie Complex and i director, Phillipcampus. The future of alker emorial wa 10 tin thi di cus- 1. al h could be ell uited to manage Walker's future devel-

ion becau e of the familiar refrain opment, but only if gi en full upport from the Institute.Editorial that renovation would be too large While Walker i no longer the center of campus life, it stillan undertaking for the Institute. erve a ignificant portion of the student body. The activities

The venerable building ha erved T wen as the home of and patron erved by Walker de erve the arne considerationcampu activities for generation of tudent . It is a building gi en tho e erved by the tudent Center.that T hould re pect and maintain. ince the con tru tion of Another facilitie trouble spot on east campus i Eastthe tudent Center however the administration has focu ed on Campus itself. EC residents de erve to live in reasonable condi-developing tudent life on we t campus, which ha allow d tions yet have not been given that opportunity in recent weeks. AWalker to fall into a tate of disrepair. The building' ervices rash offal e fire alarm - up to six in one day alone - haveare chronically under taffed, which leads to lengthy line during interrupted tudents live at all hour of the day. Students nowlunchtime and garbage bins that overflow, adding to the rodent a ume that all alarms are mi take , creating a potentially danger-problem in that area of campu . The balconie 0 erlooking ou ituation if one alarm out of the crowd turns out to be real.

or Hall are closed off to the public indefinitely whil await- Of course, false fire alarm are the tip of the iceberg withing much-needed repair. tudent group re iding in Walker regard to EC living condition. The tap water in the bathroomsmu t cope with the lack of air conditioning and proper entila- runs brown, the trash chutes are consistently backed up and ation. Worker in Pritchett, the only late-night dining option on rat infe tation continues unchecked.the east ide of campu ,must deal with unde irable working Tolerable living conditions for students on the east side ofconditions and a shortage of keys for the diner' facilitie . campus hould not be sacrificed. Repairs of facilities on the east

The greate t problem Walker face is its lack of a master side of campus are long overdue. The In titute should takeplan. If Walker is to remain a part of this campus, it mu t immediate steps to improve these and other quality-of-life issues.

Letters To The EditorCrew Cuts Here in Washington State, the University

of Washington, an NCAA Division I athleticpowerhouse which generates enormous rev-enues from football and basketball, some-how could not afford to keep lightweightmen's rowing (despite the dominance of theUW heavyweight crew on the national levelover many decades, and the very substantialdonations of money from rowing alumni).They have also cancelled wrestling, andalmost cancelled swimming, which castsMIT's commitment to intercollegiate athlet-

ics in a very positive light by comparison.It's a shame to see that we appear to have

been right, based on the Division m practicelimits. A 2l-week season is not long enoughto teach novices to row effectively or to train avarsity crew.

Rowing was one of the best parts of mytime at MIT, and I hope the women succeed intheir petition to Division I status so they cankeep up the terrific program they have builtover the last twenty years.

I read with interest the article on women'screw and the CAA ["Women' Crew Protests

CAA Crew Changes," March 23]. When Iwas at IT as a rower in the heavyweightmen's crew, we always hoped that rowing(which is far older as an intercollegiate sportthan most, and does not fit the model of thebig-money sports) would never be in the

CAA, because their one-size-fits-all systemwould hurt rowing at maIler schools. Dave Trop '83

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Cue t ColumnDan Tortorice

sophocles' Oedipus Rex opens,Oedipu is ruler of Thebe . But, with a quickreversal, at the end of the drama he is the mostscorned man in the land. Similarly it seems tobe with Federal Reserve Chairman AlanGreenspan. In January, one year ago, the wiz-ard behind the prosperous ew Economy waushered into his fourth term with almost uni-versal acclaim. Yet, just fifteen months later,with the ugly word recession rearing its head,the prai e has turned to reproof, the acclima-tion to invective.

What happened? It's simple really - themiracle economy began to slow and the criticshave begun to emerge. But what do theyblame him for? They accuse him simply ofone sin: raising interest rates for no good rea-son. Well okay, they admit, to fight inflation,but because of the ew Economy we don'tneed to worry about that inflation bug.

These ew Economy pundits put forwardmany arguments based around the amazingtechnological progress of the last decade toclaim that inflation is dead. While a plethoraof these perversions of economic reasonabound, there are two particularly insidiousones that tend to pop up with more frequencyas Greenspan-bashing becomes in vogue.

The first, proposed by Bill 0 'Reillyamong others, runs like this: The technologi-cal progress of the '90s has made our indus-tries more competitive, and this competitionputs pressure on businesses to keeptheir prices low. So we can't haveinflation even in the face of ris-ing oil prices. If businesses raisetheir prices no one will buytheir stuff. What makes thisargument so vicious is on faceit seems right. Yet like mostamateur economic analyses itis flawed and misleading.Competition does keep downprices, but there is a limit tohow low these prices can go.Specifically, the price in themarket must be high enoughthat firms desire to be in themarket given profit opportunitiesfor their capital elsewhere. Whatcompetition does is to ensure thatprofit margins are as low as possible,while maintaining the desire for firmsto remain in the market.

So when you raise the firms'costs, say through higher oil prices,you cut into their profits. If theNew Economy has really made the market socompetitive, then given the new, lower profitmargins of these firms, capital will flow out

of the indu try see ing new opportunitieel ewhere. The result: fewer firm in the mar-ket le upply, higher prices, i.e.: inflation.

The econd ewEconomy argument,proposed by Dr. AmitaiEtzioni (a profe sor ofsociology at GeorgeWashington University),can be paraphrased: the

ew Economy has revo-lutionized the way wedo business, firmsrespond more quickly togovernment policy, sothe Federal Reserveneed not be so forward-looking when worryingabout inflation. If inflation starts, the flexible

ew Economy will respond quickly to Fedpolicy and inflation will be nipped in the

bud. I'm ure Alan Greenspan has not missedthe technological progress of the last decade.But fortunately he has not been sufficiently

Oedipu Rex went from being ruler ifThebesto the most scorned man in the land. So it seems

to be with Federal Reserve Chairman AlanGreenspan. In just fifteen months, the wizard

behind the prosperous ew Econorny has seenthe word (recession'rear its ugly head.

wowed bye-mail to forget that the ewEconomy should have no impact on the Fed'sforward-looking inflation policy.

When we have a year of high inflationpeople see the purchasing power of theirincome decrease, so the next year, naturallyexpecting the same rate of inflation as theprevious year, they a k for a pay raise.Unions across America do the same. Andbusinesses, faced with rising labor costs,start to raise their prices, so there's moreinflation in the economy. And people,expecting prices to rise again next year, ask

for more money. You get the picture.That's how inflation got built into thesystem in the 1970s and only a painfulbout with sustained high unemploymenteventually ended it. But the important

thing to remember about this mechanismis that the Internet economy has no effect on

it. What fuels the inflation fire are peoples'expectations. The Federal Reserve, by failingto put the monetary breaks on the economy,lets demand outstrip supply one year, result-ing in higher prices. And the inflation is per-sistent in the economy. All the e-mails in the

world will not make it easier tochange these people's perceptions.

~ Everyone knows that once youD lose someone's trust it is difficult'. ~ ;) to gain it back. Well, once the Fed

~ ~'j~~ loses America's trust by allow-~ ..) \~ ing inflation to occur, it's hard

\ .V I to gain the trust of 135 million~~(/J;>gff}~ ' , working Americans again.

Alan Greenspan performs adangerous balancing act, trying

to manage economic growth withthe inflationary pressures it brings. He's

usually good, but sometimes he misses. Yes,~ there is room for intelligent criticism"=-........l"~_ ...... of the Board's policies, but the

"New Economy," "inflation is dead"route is not the way to go.

Dan Tortorice is a member of the Class of2002.

Roy Esaki

"The first of April is the day we remem-ber what we are the other 364 days of theyear," Samuel Clemens tells us. Seemingly atrivial and silly non-holiday, celebrating onlyjustified puerile pranks and callow capers,its origins and contemporary expressionactually symbolize how the majority estab-lish the standards of right, and of how peo-ple with dissenting opinions are played forsweet and bitter fools.

During the Roman era, the new year beganwhen it was supposed to, at the start of theyear. Starting in the Middle Ages, the French,being French, decided to celebrate the newyear around the vernal equinox, with celebra-tions ending after a week or so (actually onApril 3, so my column isn't untimely) with aday of social calls and gift-giving. In the mid-16th century, Pope Gregory establishedJanuary I as New Year's Day again, perhaps tosell more copies of his new calendar; someresisted the change, and continued to observethe holiday customs in April. The newlyreformed mocked the conservative reactionar-ies, and sent mock invitations and gifts, call-ing the Poisson d' Avril (a favorite April Fool'sprank was to avail to poison each other, still acustom in some provinces).

It appears a quaint and anachronistic story,but it's the story that continues even today,when the majority of society - often underthe instruction of some authoritative decree -

Fools,All Of Them!establishes what's right and proper, and whatopinions are foolish. From Alan Greenspan'sanalysis of the dismal first quarter on WallStreet, to the recent us. News graduate schoolrankings, to the new area codes and mandato-ry 10-digit numbers, to the horrible conspira-cy that is Daylight Savings Time, all aredecrees from on high, supported by the com-pliant majority eager tofind out the Truth, whichcreates a self-fulfilling,self-perpetuating proph-esy. Once established, theinertia of the majorityopinion allows little roomfor dissent. The few whostubbornly refuse to pre-tend it's an hour earlierthan it is, who naivelybelieve in the prestige of aschool with low rankings,or who valiantly railagainst having to remem-ber three extra digits, aremocked and derided.

Individuals deviating from majority opin-ion, too, can bear the brunt of collective con-tempt - from Justin Fong, author of the infa-mous "Invasian" column in The HarvardCrimson, to David Horowitz, under fire forcriticizing reparations for slavery. Very highpassions are aroused against these peoplewho, rightly or not, oppose accepted societalmores and norms. aturally, society shouldengage in rational discourse with people with

what appear to be mistaken sentiments. To usethe power of the majority to cholerically abaseand degrade such dissenters, however mistak-en they may seem to be, will ultimately becounterproductive. If it seems difficult tochange the minds of "fools," it'll be all themore difficult to persuade humiliated fools.

How often do we ridicule those who

From Greenspan ~ analysis if the dismal firstquarter on Wall Street, to the recent U. S. ews

graduate school rankings, to the horribleconspiracy that is Daylight Savings Time, all aredecreesfrom on high, supported by the majorityeager tofind out the Truth, which creates a self-

fuffillin£ self-perpetuating prophesy:

don't follow the same rules that we do?When we say "that's so stupid," or "that's sosad," how often do we actually mean 'that'sso different?" Should we derive amusementout of belittling people's beliefs (such as thegreatness of David Duchovny)? Shall weimpress ourselves with witty deception ofthe misguided (such as those who don'tappreciate Ducbovny)? Of course; what elseis sarcastic wit for?

Let us hear your opinion.~"l:;(~1 111~'.

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It Takes TwoJyoti Tibrewala

April has begun, leaving freshmen threeweeks to select a major. Some of us may beahead of the game, having accepted sophomorestanding or what have you, while others haveyet to schedule appointments with our advisers.

A few weeks before Spring Break, I metwith my advising group just to catch up witheveryone and see how we were all doing. Myadviser had it on his agenda to discu s choiceof major with us, but he didn't just corne rightout and ask us what we were all thinking ofmajoring in and did we have any questions.Rather, he started a discussion on choosing acareer - but even this wasn't your typical"where do you want to be in a couple of yearsand which degree will best help you get there"talk. He started by asking us about the sort offamily life we would each like to have; can yousee yourself prioritizing a career over starting afamily, and vice versa. Next, he segued into thecareer discussion, and only made a small men-tion of the fact that he had the choice-of-majordiscussion on his to-do list.

Needless to say, the topic lent itself to alively discussion, one that I (and I'm sure I'mnot the only one) was sorry to have to curtail.It was definitely one of the more interestingdiscussions I've had with anyone in a while. Iwon't call it thought-provoking only becausethese are issues I've already found myself

He said that women hadto be more concerned than men

did with striking a balancebetween their careerand their

family life·At the risk ifsounding idealistic, thingsshouldn't be that way. If

husband and wife are to beequal partners, they should beequally concerned with caring

for afamily.

concerned with, so much that I found myselfhaving a nearly identical conversation withsome friends over Spring Break.

While my adviser was able to carry aninteresting conversation overall, one point ofhis was rather narrow-minded in nature. Thesad part is, it's also most likely widely accept-ed. He said that women had to be more con-cerned than men did with striking a balancebetween their career and their family life.

At the risk of sounding idealistic, thingsshouldn't be that way. It takes two people - aman and a woman - to start a family. If bothare to be equal partners, they should be equal-ly concerned with caring for a family. Andthey certainly should not be told beforehandthat the man would not be expected to be asconcerned for the family as would the woman.

Perhaps I should clarify that I'm not sayinga complete role reversal of the sexes is instore. In fact, that would be a ludicrous state-ment. But in a time when gender equity isbeing attained in the workplace, such a com-ment is a slap in the face. If we can achievethat, then equity in the home should be a pieceof cake. Of course, now that we as a societyhave allowed the stereotypes of the male-as-breadwinner-only and female-having-to-make-a-choice to perpetuate, what would haveonce been easy may now be a challenge.

It's truly unfortunate that earlier genera-tions were given this restriction (forfemales)/freedom (from responsibility, formales). This is so because individuals fromthese generations have the potential to passalong these criteria to future generations, andonce a belief passes through and is assimilatedinto a few generations, quashing it can be dif-ficult. This would be the only obstacle toachieving equality in the home (in terms ofperceived necessary level of commitment), butits massiveness makes it a hard one to over-come. It's nothing we can't handle, though.We've shown that we are capable of rightingmany of the wrongs plaguing the world in thisday and age. We can take this one on too.

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cornpanie , in e tment hou es, commoditybro erage etc.), or that acquired corporationsconnected to la ery, and individuals whoinherited wealth connected to la ery.

A claim again t government may eemunfair a it ultimately involves many citizenswith little or no connection to lavery.Howe er it is con istent with the almostworldwide convention that current govern-ments must honor the debts, treaties, andobligation created by prior regimes, regard-les of whether current citizenry had anyinvolvement or say in their creation. Forinstance the current government of

icaragua owes a debt amounting to thou-sands of dollars per citizen to U. . banks andother institution that was incurred by the

omoza dictatorship 30 to 40 years ago (theaverage yearly wage there is a few hundreddollars). The relevance of this example to thereparations debate lies in the fact that thecurrent government of icaragua must bearthe burden created by a dictatorship most

icaraguans had no involvement with norgained anything from.

ince the U.S. government imposes thisstandard on other countries, perhaps it is onlyright that current governments in the u.s. beheld liable for the legalized inhumanity thatoccurred in this country until 1865. If theopponents of reparations don't believe ininherited debt and obligation, let them be theloudest in calling for the cancellation of alldebts and treaties created by dictatorships andpassed on to their citizens. Let them also standagainst all debts and treaties period whichwere formed before the current generationswere alive and politically aware. But I don'texpect to read David Horowitz's "Ten ReasonsWhy the Third World Debt Is a Bad Idea -And Racist Too" anytime soon.

The case for corporate liability is lessambiguous. Just as old property deeds andcontracts can still be legally binding, so toocan old liabilities.

Additionally, when one corporation takesover another, it gains not only the other'sassets, but also its debts and liabilities.

Sometimes when conservatives opposesomething they will bring up "merit" as KenNesmith pointed out in his column "A Legacyof Contradiction." The issue of slavery repara-tion has been no exception, with many claim-ing they are an attack on merit.

But since when is wealth inherited fromslavery, or any inherited wealth for that matter,based on personal merit? It isn't, unless notgetting cut out of a parent's will qualifies as"merit."

Rather than wanting a meritocracy, itseems many conservatives just want to make iteven easier for mediocre but well-connectedyoung men to get into top Ivy League schools,bankrupt a couple companies, get rewardedwith their very own baseball team, and go onto be President ofthe United States.

It is undeniable that reparations for U.S.slavery represent new legal territory. But sodid the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments, theCivil Rights Act, the Nuremberg trials, and therecent Holocaust suits directed at Swiss banksand German corporations.

Hopefully the public won't be fooled bythe misrepresentations put forth by DavidHorowitz and his ilk. Slavery reparations areundeniably a complex and contentious issue,but they deserve their day in court.

John S. Reed is a graduate student in theDepartment of Materials Science andEngineering.

merican ? In other" ord , wa n't it aforceful slavery that brought them toAmerica in the first place? Having an

frican American a the pre ident of one ofthe oldest colleges does not change the maintructural defect . Can making an Africanmerican the president of one college alter

the fundamental structure that generate andperpetuate exclu ion and racism?

While that change may be a tep in theright direction, it i equally important to con-tinue to pre s for uch changes that have his-torical context - for a greater good thatshould no longer be fro trated by the past orby the present. Wa it not Jame Madison,the great architect of the famous Federalist

10, who argued that'the claim of ju ticemust be fulfilledbetween non-citizensand citizens, no lesthan between fellowcitizens?" And thisMadison called"rights of humanity."It i obviou there-fore that the groundsto raise the questionof the price to payorthe presidency ofBrown Universitylack strong andnoble justifications.In fact, hadn't thesecontroversies been

clarified and settled between John C.Calhoun and Abraham Lincoln over a centu-ryago?

Why can't we see an apology for the mis-take of our ancestors that have been passedon from one generation to another? Why havegenerations after Abraham Lincoln failed toput behind them this terrible history? Are westill waiting for Abraham Lincoln to rise fromhis grave to complete what he strongly pur-sued? What type of civilization have we builtall these centuries, if we still live the pastpresently? Shouldn't one peace and justiceloving among us, rise above others and say thetruth and bring to an end these centuries ofagony?

I strongly believe not only that an apologyis desirable but also that reparations mustfollow apology as the only way to recognizethe horrible dehumanization that was metedon African Americans by those who forceful-ly used their labor and sweat to build whatwe have today as the great America. 0

doubt that that cannot erase the past, but atleast it could prove that justice has beendone. So reparation should be part of theprocess of justice; the cruelty of the past thatstilI horrifies the descendants of Africa. Thisis an opportunity for President George W.Bush. Let him not miss his destiny with his-tory.

Basil Enwegbara is a graduate student inthe Department of Urban Studies andPlanning.

Guest ColumnJohn . R d

Lately in the media, a number of strawman arguments have been a cribed to thesupporter of reparation for lavery. In onee ample a question was posed: 'If yourgreat-great-great-grandfather committed acrime and was never caught, would you beresponsible?" It wa claimed that reparationupporters would an wer ye .

Although a lot has been written already onthis i ue, such gross mi repre entationsdemand that the record be et traight.

A in many political debates, there are awide range of opinions on both sides of theis ue of slave reparation . It true that someadvocate of reparations believe that guilt ipassed down through generations the waysome religions believe that original sin is. Butothers, including perhaps the most notablereparation effort - "The ReparationsAssessment Group," which includes ProfessorCharles Ogletree of Harvard Law chool,appear to be favoring the much less metaphysi-cal and more legally grounded claim of "unjustenrichment."

A question more analogous to this type ofreparation claim than the one given abovewould be, if your great-great-great grandfatherstole something that you inherited, would youhave to return the stolen item to the descen-dants of the person he robbed? A similar claim,albeit on a shorter time scale, was successfullymade by azi slaves and their descendantsagainst corporations that profited from slavelabor. Pre umably, if the communists ever losepower in Cuba, American corporations andindividuals will be making uch claims onproperty nationalized under Fidel Castro. Thereare many other examples, all with their ownunique circumstances.

The azi slavery lawsuits probably are theclosest equivalent to the reparations claims forslavery in the U.S. Some argue that the twoclaims are not comparable since Nazi slaveryended 80 years later than American slaverydid and hence there are living former Nazislaves whereas no former American slaves arestill alive.

It's not clear to me why this differenceshould disqualify a claim of "unjust enrich-ment" brought by the descendants of U.S.slaves. Many millions of slaves toiled over aspan of 240 years in the U.S. and the coloniesthat preceded it to produce an enormousamount of wealth. This wealth didn't simplyvanish with the Emancipation Proclamation. Itwas invested, put into banks, and passed ontoheirs. One place that wealth did not go, howev-er, was to newly freed slaves. Instead of receiv-ing "40 acres and a mule" which was far, farless than the compensation they deserved, thefreed slaves were subjected to terrorism fromthe Ku Klux Klan and post-Reconstructiongovernments. This organized campaign of ter-ror against ex-slaves drove many of them into astate of peonage and continued against themand their descendants for about 100 years.

Beneficiaries of "unjust enrichment"through slavery include the U.S. government,European and African nations involved in theslave trade (note that European powers laterconquered all of these African nations andmay well have looted any wealth they hadfrom the slave trade), state governments(especially those in the former Confederacy),corporations that were involved in slavery(e.g. banks insurance companies, maritime

Let us browse through the debate on lav-ery reparations with some analytic tool .

Those who did the advertisement ["TenReasons Why Reparations For lavery Is a BadIdea - and Racist Too"] said omething like:Why reparations to African-Americans? Wouldthey have preferred being Africans as it istoday? Hadn't slavery been the price they paidto become American today? Is it not one ofthem who has now been elected the pre ident ofBrown University?

ow let us hope that these must have beenthe reasons that moti-vated those who didthe ad. But they arewrong to base theirarguments on theabove-mentionedquestions for obviousreasons.

First, apology i ahumane attribute. Inthis case, they couldhave apologizedwhile at the sametime arguing that thepast should be seenas the past and thosewho committed thecrime and tho e whobore the immediatepains were all their ancestors and had gonewith their iniquities and their pains. So apol-ogy becomes the recognition that somethingcruel went wrong that could not be con-doned in America today.

Second, that Africa was looted both natur-al-resource-wise and human-resource-wisecould ju tify the present state of Africa withfull blame on the West in which Americaremains the prominent leader. Let us remem-ber that that was why Franklin D. Rooseveltmade sure that America had unrestrictedaccess to African resources after World War II,just as the Europeans did before the scramblefor and after the effective occupation of Africain 1885. Therefore, African Americans couldbase their argument on the simple fact thatreparations should be seen as independent ofthe present state of Africa; after all, the pre-sent state of Africa is the outcome of Westerngreed and sheer unending exploitation of thecontinent.

The third argument African Americansshould have is: has the exploitation andexclusion of African Americans fromAmerica ended? What about the present con-tinued and systematic exclu ion that stillundermines the realization of the potentialsin most African Americans - should thatalso be the price to pay for coming toAmerica? Have those Europeans that ran toAmerica since the beginning of last century,and particularly those that came after the twoWorld Wars, paid any price for being

VV1tycan)! we see an apologyfor the mistakes of our ancestors

that have been passed on from onegeneration to another? VVhy have

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On Thursday, March 22, the MIT Symphony Orchestra performed pieces by Bartok, Hindemith, Copland, and Ravel.

By Bogdan FedelesSTAFF WRITER

carry on the sonorous tapestry most of the timereminds of Bartok's earlier work, Divertimentofor Strings, particularly in the last movement,where some diatonic elements break throughthe opaque, chromatic material presented sofar. Percussion helps, building a rhythmicdrive, and the piece concludes in a lighter, joy-ful atmosphere. MITSO gave a convincing per-formance of this piece, highlighting particular-ly Bartok's innovative ideas.

Hindemith's Grablegung (Entombment) isthe second movement of the Symphony,Mathis der Maler, a symphonic excerpt fromHindemith's opera of the same name. Thispiece was included in the program as homageto the memory of John D. Corley, a belovedconductor of MIT SO between 1956-1966. Thepiece is succinct, yet it features the wholeorchestra in very expressive ways. The solosof woodwinds sound like sorrowful laments,while the brass sustains the sad atmospherewith heavy chords. The trumpet and even thetuba have noticeable interventions, contribut-ing to the overall feeling of restlessness anddistrust. The sadness is eventually attenuatedright before the ending, when major chordswhispered in the strings are intonated by thehorns. The performance of this piece was verygood, showing individual solos admirablyintermeshed in a homogenous orchestra.

Copland's Appalachian Spring is a wonder-ful inspirational piece, which invokes the long-awaited season of this time of the year: the

spring. Written as a ballet that underlies a verysimple story of marriage and revival - sym-bols of the spring - the piece unfolds as a dia-tonic, marvelous musical painting with strongand characteristic American accents that Cop-land has always strived for. The basic triad isarpeggiated in the beginning, then over andover in different keys becoming a leit-motif ofthe piece. As major chords are predominant,and dissonances are sparingly used, the wholeatmosphere breathes a light, joyful spring air.Time coordinates are suppressed as the musicmoves freely, with almost no rhythm; the meterchanges often and erratically, contributing tothis atemporal feeling of vitality and joy.MITSO enchanted the audience by performingadmirably this remarkable seasonal piece.

Finally, the concert came to its main attrac-tion point - Ravel's La Valse, a piece famousfor its complex orchestral features and for itsintense pictorial sonorities. Ravel wrote LaValse as a musical depiction of Vienna in itsglorious years. The waltz was the emblematicelement of Viennese music, 0 Ravel envi-sioned his piece as a grand waltz that borrows atleast the rhythmic balance and the vibrant brasschords of the well-known waltzes written byViennese composers of the late 19th century.However, the piece is very different from aStrauss waltz. Ravel mixes the characteristicmeter with 4/4 bars, creating the impression ofimperfection, of stumbling. The brilliance ofsome chords is opposed with low register figu-

ration, building up an enormous tension. Appar-ently, we are listening to a slightly unconven-tional waltz, but eventually, the gloomy detailsmurmured by the basses grow stronger andstronger, prevailing as the piece reaches a cli-max. The percussion plays an important role,punctuating the phrases where the wholeorchestra plays fortissimo. Ravel uses a widerange of percussion instruments, which helpsthe sonority of each passage to be fresh andslightly different. In the end, the whole orches-tral tumult hints toward a hidden violence thatmay exist in Vienna, a society known for itsapparent innocence and interest in arts andbeauty. The ending suggests a deception, adefeat, but nevertheless, the piece remains awonderful orchestral score, full of originalmusical attitudes and details. Under DanteAnzolini's baton, MITSO gave an outstandingperformance of this piece, full of statement andnuance. The clarity of articulation and therefinement of details came forth in theadmirable recreation of Ravel's music, display-ing La Valse as an unsettling, powerful piece.

The whole concert was a wonderful expe-rience illustrating how music can accuratelydepict natural beauty and deep human feelingswith a directness that sometimes transcendsour understanding. MITSO and its directorDante Anzolini deserve congratulations fortheir dedication in making possible these spe-cial musical events that help us perceive sub-tler aspects of our existence.

l1ursdaybefore spring break, the MITSymphony Orchestra, directed byDante AnzoIini, presented a marvelousprogram of classical music, comprised

of Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion andCelesta, Hindemith's Grablegung from theSymphony, Mathis der Maller, Copland'sAppalachian Spring, and Ravel's La Valse.

Given the postponement of about twoweeks, the concert was under-attended, theaudience barely filling about a quarter ofKresge Auditorium. Nevertheless, the smallaudience applauded enthusiastically the out-standing performance of each piece.

The concert began with Bartok's Music forStrings, Percussion and Celesta, a mature workconsidered to be one of Bartok's greatestorchestral score. Bartok's approach is com-pletely original, not only through his music butalso through the way he directs the display ofthe instruments in the orchestra. The strings aredivided into two symmetric groups that flankthe celesta, the harp, and the percussion instru-ments. Given this ensemble, the sonoritiesevolve in a circular fashion, alternating fromside to side until the percussion accentuates thetutti's cuImination. This is how the first move-ment, a slow, intense fugue, develops. Percus-sion is used sparingly throughout the first twomovements, and celesta has its solo part nolater than the third movement. That the strings

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aking Smootbie at HomeAs you can tell, I don't cook much for myself anymore.

Between restaurants, Aramark my house's chef, and freedinner at The Tech (join and you can get them too), I havelittle occasion to break out the pot and pan. ot to mentionthat I am lazy.

One thing I definitely do make is smoothies. I finallybought some protein powder from GC and mix it in withthe fruits. I usually use fresh fruit if it is around; otherwisecanned or frozen fruits can work as well. Generally I fill theblender about half way with ice, add a scoop of protein pow-der pour in about a half a cup of juice, then add a banana(for consistency) and two other fruits. My favorite combina-tions are peachlblueberry and strawberrylblackberry.

ometimes I add a little less ice and include a scoop ortwo of frozen yogurt or ice cream (I like apricot with vanillaice cream) or some herbet (trawberry herbet with black-berries and blueberries is good). This makes for a more fill-ing and creamier smoothie.

This amount of ingredients usually make about three 12-ounce smoothies, and I usually end up sharing mine withfriends who are around when I make them. It may seem likea hassle to use a blender, but it sure beats paying 3-$5 at asmoothie hop.

on campus. Unfortunately I do not frequent Walker thisyear so I will probably not sample the new fare for sometime, but when r do I will let you know what I think. Untilthen, feel free to let me know what you think at<veggie@the-tech.rnit.edu>. In addition you can carboncopy <meal@mit.edu> which will reach the Aramarkmanagement.

I just spent Spring Break visiting Florida with somefriends, and found that, despite the seafood which predomi-nated the menus there, vegetarian. options were widely avail-able. Especially in Miami and Key West, I found that vege-tarian sandwiches stood beside typical deli elections, andvegetarian specials and entrees were so plentiful that I oftenhad the pleasure (or displeasure) of debating for some timeover what to choose. It was a rare luxury that I wish I couldindulge in more often.

We also ate at fa t food restaurants a bunch and I wasreminded how sad I am that Wendy's no longer carriestheir wraps which used to be the only fast-food vegetariansandwich option. I found out that you can now getjalapeno poppers, mozzarella ticks and onion rings atBurger King and Arby's. All of these fried foods are nothealthy or filling, but at least they provide an alternativeto french fries. If you too want the wraps to return write a

By Katie JeffreysS7'AFF WRlTIiR

For some reason this year, I managed to forget allabout the Great American Meat-Out which took placeon March 20, 2001 (the first day of spring). There-fore, r was unable to let you all mow that on that day,

Aramark made a concerted effort to eliminate meat fromtheir menu. I went to Courses for lunch and noticed that allthe specials were vegetarian, but that they were still servingthe traditional hamburgers and chicken products. I havealways thought this participation in the Meat-Out was a nicegesture, and throughout the day my omnivorous friendscame up to me and let me know that when they ate lunch atan Aramark establishment they made a conscious decision toavoid meat.

Aramark has also recently made a change in the vegetari-an options available at Walker. They have switched the Gra-nary from having two grain choices to only one, but added avegetarian salad or wrap option. In addition, a cart of pre-made vegetarian dishes win be placed in Walker, under thename "Square Roots."

I think that both the expansion of the variety of vegetar-ian foods available and the Meat-Out program indicate thatAramark is growing increasingly aware of vegetarian need

GARY FRJEDMA

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company reach too far in You Walk?, a production that aims toreflect Latin- editerranean culture.

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Bill T.Jones! Arnie ZaneDance Company: Thu Walk?Tries to Run but tumblesBy Bence OlveczkySTAFF WRITER

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance CompanyPresented by Dance UmbrellaChoreography by Bill T. JonesAdditional choreography by Janet WongMedieval dances reconstructed by Valerie WilliamsThe Emerson Majestic TheatreMarch 21-25

Three year ago the city of Bologna asked Bill. T. Jones to create a piece reflecting on Latin-

Mediterranean culture. The African-Americanchoreographer accepted the challenge and the

result, You Walk?, could be seen in Boston last week.But the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company failto walk their walk, answering the que tion in theshow's title with a disappointing no. Aiming for poet-ry-in-motion, the world-renowned dance group's per-formance ends up feeling a 10 more like pretentious-ness-in-action.

The evening starts out with the choreographerhimself sitting in a throne-like armchair reading cere-moniously from The Lusiads, a 16th-century Por-tuguese epic about Vasco da Gama's voyage of dis-covery. But the passages from Luiz de Canoes'scia sic, which are recited throughout the show todescribe, in a poetic language, the meeting of cul-tures, are more confusing than catalytic.

Jones clearly ha an agenda, and it seems to havemore to do with the colonizing tendencies of the "OldWorld" than with the radiance of Latin-Mediterraneanculture. While his approach may be justified, the mes-sage he is delivering is wrapped in a highly esotericand pseudo-philosophical blanket that is both preten-tious and confusing. Projected titles preceding each ofthe nine eparate pieces (such as "we wore timeshamelessly' and "you saw an endless line expand-ing") and meaningless, if elaborate, program notes do

not provide a focus either.Despite his shortcomings as a poet or a philoso-

pher, Bill T. Jones i still an enormously talentedchoreographer with a painter's eye and a musician'sear. The production tarts off with tunes from Africa,medieval Europe, and the Amazon, and is accompa-nied by highly stylized versions of the respective cul-tures' traditional dances.

The musical centerpiece, however, is an Ignacio, a"lost opera" composed by a group of 1 th-centuryJesuit missionaries working in the Amazon region. Thedancing accompanying this baroque piece evokesscenes from the Bible and images of Christian worship,with a half-naked female dancer, Toshiko Oiwa, beingsome kind of Jesus figure. Her role is unclear as sherepeatedly runs across the stage with a gigantic redbanner, projecting the aura of a conquering communist.

The second half of the show stands in stark con-trast to the first, being lighter and a lot le contrived.It is performed, in part, to John Cage's compositionEmpty Words, which is essentially melodious gibber-ish. Responding in kind, the dancers start to communi-cate in tongues. They leave their roles as Jesus, thecommunist, etc. to engage in humorous interactions,making fun of each other's performances during thefirst act. The show continues in a light-hearted spiritwith a series of beguiling Portuguese folk songs andbravura dancing.

The climax of the evening is a solo performed bythe 9-year-old Bill T. Jones to a Portuguese ballad.The rest of the company frames the old master's danceby freezing in their po itions. It's powerful to see theHIV -positive dancer, still very much in control, per-form what inadvertently comes across as a swan song.

Few choreographers can match his ability to com-bine movements and music with visually stunningimages, and make it feel like a harmonious, insepara-ble whole. In his best moments, Bill T. Jones can becathartic, but in You walk? he simply reaches too far.

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MUSIC REVIEW

State of the AirwavesCUlture, Crowns and ChristopherBy Dan Katz

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Murph 's enth La of Music Journali m tate that if youdon't write a column for three wee (that' one week I went

. on hiatu and one week of spring break. and you have to.. . 0 r all of the albums that ha e come out while you've been

gone, then LOT of albums ill have come out whil you were gone. Infact, th re 's nough of them that they'll pro ably uck up the lionhare of thi week's c lumn. Of course, I'Il hit the upcoming concert

beforehand and if there' pace left at the nd 1'11gush about the late tofferings in the music realm.

If you feel a void in the li e-mu ic land cape, it may be that Mo yFruvou isn't touring, 'Ii hich is extremely unusual for the concert-heavyband. ou can fill the void at TT The Bear's tomorrow night - theclosest thing the band has to a front man, Jian Ghome hi, i appearingwith two other inger- onzwriter on a bill called' 3 ong Circu ."

Thor da night, Cowboy outh ("Jenny a") and Southern Cul-ture On The kid ("Camel Walk') mosey on down to the Avalon toblur th line between a hoedown and rock show. Friday, the Amazing

ro . us appear at Lilli hile the O. . upertones spread the word ofthe lord at the Palladium in Worcester. On Monday, Frank Black andthe Cath lie roll into the Paradi e Rock lub on CommonwealthAvenue.

While I wa in Connecticut two week ago the music industry wasnot on vacation. Rock favorite Toadie, who crafted the wonderful "1Come From The Water,' but poisoned alternative airwaves with theo erplayed "Possum Kingdom" returned to the public eye with analbum caned Hell Below, Stars Above. Powderfinger who are enjoyingradio uccess with 'My Happine s," ga e their fans a chance to buy thesong on Odys. ey #5. Sepultura' new disc i entitled 'ation, while theOld 97 appeal to a less hardcore audience with Satellite Rides. Round-ing out the lineup are punk-pop stars U.S. Bombs and their latest, BackA t the Laundromat.

Then, over spring break, the heavy-hitters came out. Buckeherry,whose major hit is a tribute to cocaine, actually claim that they heldback on their first album, and they try to make up for it OIl Time Bomb.Train's second disc, Drops Of Jupiter, is warranting plenty of airplayfor the gorgeous title track, while the Living End are doing well withthe title-cut to Roll On as well. Monster Magnet, who raided MTV awhile back with the video for "Space Lord, , present a new album calledGod Says No, but the network ha moved on to their current darlingsSaliva, who'll support their debut, Every Six Seconds, on. the MTVCampus Invasion Tour. For lighter tastes, there's Shawn Colvin'sBrand New You, and for the collector, the second batch of Pearl Jam'sdomestic bootlegs hit stores last week.

Which brings us to this week. Indie-roekgods Guided By Voicesrelease Isolation. Drills, while the only Canadians to strike it rich bysaying "Mmmm' Crash Test Dummies, offer I Don't Care That YouDon't Mind.

Finally, there's a compilation of performances from California radiostation KCRW's influential' Morning Becomes Eclectic" program. Thatdisc feature live cuts from Travis, David Gray, and the DandyWarhols, along with plenty of artists 1haven't heard but probablyshould. Lars Fredriksen & The Bastards offer a self-titled debut, andcritical darlings Black Box Recorder unveil The Facts Of Life today.Finally, there's a greatest hits album from Modem English.. That's right;Modem English. It contains "I Melt With You" ... and ... urn ....

As I expected, there's not much room Ieft, butI'Il try to cram inaword about the best music video I've seen in a longtime. Spike Jonze'slast two works of cinematic brilliance were the video for Fat Boy Slim's'Praise You," which derived comedy from people dancing badly in

public, and Being John Matkovich, which was quirky and unnerving.For Fat Boy Slim's new single, "Weapon Of Choice," Jonze, in a mas-ter stroke, combined those two worlds by having one quirky andunnerving man dance in a hotel. ot just any quirky and unnervingman, but Christopher Walken. A description can't do this clip justice;look for it on the Internet, sit in front of MTV2 for a while - whateverit takes - see this video. It currently edges out Dave Matthews Band's'I Did It" as best of the year. (More on that one some other time.)

OK~ e-mail me feedback at <airwavestiidhe-tech.mit.edu>, Keep itreal, keep in touch, and you guessed it, keep expanding your horizons.

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TechCaiendar appears in each issue of The Tech and features events for members of the MIT community. TheTech makes no guarantees as to the accuracy of this information, and The Tech shall not be held liable for anylosses, including, but not limited to, damages resulting from attendance of an event.Contact information for all events is available from the TechCalendar web page.

Tuesday, April 3is't and add events to TechCalendar online at htfp:/ /tech-calendar. mit. edu

8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Managing Corporate Innova ion. Free to MIT Community.Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Office of Corporate Relations/ILP. ICRMOT.12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - 'Fisica' ex achina: easurlng Success and Italian ParticlePhysics in he 1960s. Dibner Institute Lunchtime Colloquia. free. Room: E56-100.Sponsor: Dibner Institute.12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Civic Environmentalism: Democratic Pathways to Sustain-ability. Examining Local and Regional Projects. free. Room: Harvard University, JFKSchool of Government, Littauer 3rd Floor, Fainsod Room. Sponsor: Department of UrbanStudies and Planning.3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Spinning into the Future: The Physics and App ications ofGiant and Tunneling agnetoresistance. DMSE Distinguished Lecturer Series, featur-ing world-elass speakers in Materials Science and Engineering. free. Room: 4-270 (fol-lowed by reception at 4:30 p.m. in 8-314). Sponsor: Dept. of Materials Science andEngineering.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - TL LSI Seminar Series. MEMS Technology for the New Opti-cal Network. free. Room: 34-101. Sponsor: MTL VLSI Seminar, Boston Area MEMS.4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Tunnel aurienne-Ambin. free. Room: 1-350. Sponsor: Engi-neering & Environmental Mechanics Group.4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Gas Turbine Seminar Series. free. Room: 31-31. Sponsor: GasTurbine Laboratory.4:30 p.m. - "The Politics of Lebanon and Syria After the Israeli ithdrawal fromSouthern Lebanon." A session of the Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar. free. Room:E51-095. Sponsor: Center for International Studies.4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - The Way Forward: Abolish the White Race. Talk by Noellgnatiev, Mass. College of Art and author of How the Irish Became White, editor of RaceTraitor. free. Room: Rm 14E-304. Sponsor: Committee on Campus Race Relations. Pro-gram in Writing and Humanistic Studies.6:30 p.m. - Architecture Lecture: "inlaid horizons." Talk by Ann Pendleton-Jullian,architect/professor, MIT. free. Room: 10-250. Sponsor: Department of Architecture.7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Hungarian Film Seminar. free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: Gradu-ate Student Council, Hungarian Student Association of MIT.7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Diet for a Small Planet: What We've Learned in 30 Years. Withthe up-coming publication of Frances Moore Lappe's new edition of her best-selling"Diet for a Small Planet," the lecture should prove to be both information and substan-tive. free. Room: 6-120. Sponsor: The Technology and Culture Forum at MIT.Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in t e V'sual Arts. April 7 - applicants must pick upworks 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. only, April 17 - winners announced, May 14-30 - Winners'Exhibition in Wiesner Gallery. Applications available at Student Art Assn. (W20), Office ofthe Arts (E15-205) and CAC (W20). free. Room: W20-429. Sponsor: Student Art Associ-ation.

Wednesday, April 4

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Eloranta Summer 2001 Fellowships-Proposal Deadline. All pro-posals for the Eloranta Summer 2001 Research Fellowships must be submitted to theUROP Office in 7-104 by 5 p.m. today, Wednesday, April 4, 2001. free. Room: 7-104.Sponsor: UROP.11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. - Global Undersea Cable etworks. EECS/RLE Optics. free.Room: Grier Room (34-401B). Sponsor: Optics.12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Artist Behind the Desk Uterary Event. Judson Wolfskill, asso-ciate publicist at the MIT Press and John Verbos, senior office assistant, Center forTechnology, Policy, and Industrial Development read from their work. free. Room: 14E-304. Sponsor: Working Group on Support Staff Issues.12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Applications of Molecular Thermodynamics. free. Sponsor:10.978 Seminar.3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - spouses&partners@mit - First Person Plural (Part I). First Per-son Plural is a documentary that tells the story of Korean-born Deann Borshay Liem. In1966, 13 years after the Korean War, eight-year-old Deann was brought to the UnitedStates by white, American, adoptive parents who raised her as a member of their family.In this film, Deann makes the startling discovery that she isn't who everyone thoughtshe was, and that her Korean birth family is alive. We will watch the first half of the filmand discuss international adoption. free. Room: W20-400. Sponsor: spouses&part-ners@mit, MIT Medical.6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - Start-up Clinic. Attendees discover how to present a businessplan to potential investors. Two pre-selected companies present their business plansand receive feedback from a panel of experts and the audience over an informal dinner.The key learning points include how plans and presentations are evaluated; whatinvestors and evaluators look for, and how to fine-tune plans and presentations. These

events are limited to 60 preregistered individuals. $35 for Forum members & students;$45 non-members. Room: MIT Faculty Club, Bldg. E52. Sponsor: MIT Enterprise Forumof Cambridge, Inc.6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. - IT SCA Chainmail Workshop. Come and learn simplemedieval chainmail weaves and patterns to make your very own shirt (hauberk), or hood(coif). Smaller sized links can be used to make jewelry. We will provide the steel, brass,and copper links, pliers, and instruction. Please bring your own pliers, if you have any.free. Room: Private Dining Room #3, Student Center (W20). Sponsor: Society for Cre-ative Anachronism.7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Renaissance Dancing. There are many forms of RenaissanceDancing that we practice. From Italian balli to courtly pavans to English country. Wedance them all with flair and fun. Dress is common street clothing. No experience nec-essary; instruction is provided. free. Room: 31-161. Sponsor: Society for CreativeAnachronism.8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - International Film Club Film Seminar Series. free. Room: 4-237. Sponsor: Graduate Student Council, International Rim Club.

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12:00 p.m. -1:00 p.m. - AI-Anon Open Discussion: AI-Anon Meeting. free. Room: E25-101. Sponsor: MIT Medical.3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Department of Chemical Engineering Seminars. NanostructureProcessing of Advanced Catalytic Materials. free. Room: 66-110. Sponsor: ChemicalEngineering.5:00 p.m. - Advanced Music Performance Student Recital. Earth, Atmospheric andPlanetary Sciences graduate student Mea Cook, cello student of Carol Ou. ElisabethKim and Alison D'Amato, piano. Faure's Elegie, Op. 24; Debussy's Son ate pour Violon-cel/o et Piano, Op. 42; Prokofiev's Sonata for Cello and Piano in C major, Op. 119. free.Room: Killian Hall. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Section.7:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. - MIT Anime Club Showing. 7:00: Kareshi Kanjou no Jijyo (Hisand Her Circumstances) Kare Kanno 16-19, 8:45: T-shirt sales, checkout distributions,9:10: TBA. free. Room: 6-120. Sponsor: Anime Club, MIT.8:00 p.m. - Campus Preview Weekend Concert. The MIT Wind Ensemble, MIT FestivalJazz Ensemble, MIT Percussion Ensemble, MIT Chamber Chorus and MIT ChamberOrchestra.(Frederick Harris, William Cutter, Dante Anzolini, conductors),Jean Rife, horn soloist. Weinstein's Roman Odes, commissioned by the MIT WindEnsemble, Weinstein's Interlude for Brass Octet; Ticheli's Postcards; Gauger's Gains-borough; Mingus' Haitian Rght Song; Guiffre's Four Brothers. 7 p.m. open forum-"Music at MIT". free. Room: Kresge Auditorium. Sponsor: Music and Theater Arts Sec-tion.

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LibraryPlanAired

Admittees Hail from Around the WorldAdmissions, from Page 1 had very few applicants from this

state," said John on.The states with the most admit-

ted applicant include California,ew York, Mas achusetts, Texas,

and ew Jersey.In the past, many admitted appli-

cants who do not choo e to attendMIT have attended Harvard, Stan-ford, Yale, and Princeton.

Class of 2005 .AdmMon Statisticsdents, or 36 percent of the totalnumber of admissions were admit-ted early action. This is roughly thesame number a have been admittedearly action in previou years.

"A number of school are rely-ing more heavily on early admis-sions, but we have tried to stay con-sistent " said Johnson.

Of the number of students admit-ted during regular decision, 296 ofthese originally applied for earlyadmi sion.

"Traditionally [early admissions]helped the less elite college bookthe core of their classes early andthat made sense, since without thatcommitment, more elite schoolswould admit and enroll their beststudents," said Jones.

In the past few years, even themost prestigious schools havemoved to admit large portions oftheir incoming classes early.

"Prestigious schools - thosewith the highest enrollment yields- ought to be able to enroll a classthe old fashioned way," Jones said.

MIT has offered early actionadmission for several decades. Overthe past 30 years, early enrollmenthas consistently been limited to 30percent of the class or less. Theadmissions office plans to continuethis plan in the future.

Students come from all backgroundsThe only quota for admissions is

a restriction on the number of for-eign citizens who are not permanentresidents of the United States. Thisgroup is limited to eight percent ofthe freshman class, or approximate-ly 100 students.

"We don't admit geographical-ly," said Johnson.

The 1,632 students admitted thisspring represent 55 foreign coun-tries and 49 states.

"There were no students admit-ted from Mississippi because we

UA, from Page 1 [umber of applicanumber admitted

Percent admitted

10,5111,63215.5%academic year."

The libraries are also lookinginto initiating a new series of dis-tantly delivered services. "We'reone of two or three libraries in thecountry exploring such services,"Wolpert said.

Furthermore, Wolpert broughtup the idea to introduce compactshelving to the basement of Build-ing 14. The proposal, however, hasseveral serious potential drawbacks.

"The building was designed tofloat," Wolpert said, "and if we puttoo much weight [in the basement]it might sink."

Despite such constraints, Wolpertsaid that she still has a number of"long term dreams" for the librarysystem. Foremost among these is anidea to build an "art-defining scienceand engineering library."

When asked by UA PresidentPeter A. Shulman '01 about whatthe proposed new library wouldentail, Wolpert said she envisioneda building structured around "ser-vices, spaces, and resources ... andin which the resources are integrat-ed in a valuable way."

"We clearly need some tools thatwill facilitate access to the richresources we supply," Wolpert said.

The MIT Libraries contain morethan 2.6 million volumes, more than20,000 current subscriptions, andextensive collections of microforms,maps, slides, scores, sound record-ings, motion pictures, and video-tapes. The system is based on thefive main libraries of engineering,architecture, science, humanitiesand management, and severalbranch libraries in specialized areas,such as aeronautics and astronau-tics, geology and planetary sciences,and music.

dmitted student breakdown:

Gender:48% female. pplicants faced tight competition

Academically, competition foradmittance was tight. Forty-sevenpercent of those admitted who wereranked by their high schools arevaledictorians of their class. Ninety-five percent of those admitted are inthe top five percent of their class.

" A Ts are up again, as aregrades in general," said Jones. "Thehigh school students we see thesedays take more difficult subjectsand do better than their predeces-sors."

The mean SAT verbal score was724, and the mean math score was760. The admitted mean compositeACT score was a 32.

Only 326 of the admitted stu-dents provided ACT scores on theirapplications.

"Most people who are planningto apply to selective colleges willtake the SAT," said Johnson inresponse to the low number ofreported ACT scores.

"One of the hardest things aboutthis job is the quality of the appli-cants. The applicants are hard tochoose from because most of thepeople who apply here have goodgrades and test scores. We try tochoose people who we think willnot only contribute to the school butget something out of it when theycome," said Johnson.

"MIT students continue to be thebest in the world. I know that for afact, and we don't tell [them] thatoften enough," said Jones.

The deadline for acceptance ofadmission is May 1,2001.

52% male

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ShullADevotedTeacherObituary, from Page 1

neutron cattering," unes aid.Thermal neutron scattering is

"still the most effective tool forstudying excitations in condensedmatter. The obel prize [Brock-house and hull] shared was richlydeserved," Litster said.

Shull a dedicated teacherShull came to MIT in 1955 as a

full professor, and enjoyed teachingas well as doing research. "I wasattracted to MIT by the prospects ofteaching and training graduateresearch students ... The opportuni-ty of being at MIT with its fine fac-ulty and excellent students has cer-tainly been most stimulating andsatisfying," Shull once wrote.

After graduating, unes didgraduate research at MIT's nuclearreactor, with Shull as his doctoralthesis advisor. unes remembersone time "when some liquid nitro-gen spilled form the reactor andthere was some damage to the vacu-um system ... in that situation Iassume most people would get veryangry but [Shull] never raised hisvoice."

Shull "was the ideal adviser,"Nunes said. "He would help youwhere you needed the help and youcould discuss things with him.There was definitely a lot of giveand take . .. and he also shared hisconversations with other colleagueswith us."

Nunes remembers a time whenShull related to his students a dis-cussion he had with Cornell Univer-sity physicist Boris W. Battermanabout the interpretation of some ofhis experiments. "It was nice that[Shull] would mention this and dis-cuss these things with studentsrather than pointing us to a paper hewrote or some such thing," Nunessaid.

Although he retired from MIT in1986, he continued to stay involvedin the MIT research community.

Shull was born in Pittsburgh, Pa.and received his SB in physics fromCarnegie Institute of Technology,now Carnegie Mellon University, in1937. Four years later, Shull earned

. the PhD from New York University.Shull lived in Lexington, Mass.

and is survived by his wife, Martha-uel Summer, three sons: John C.

of Texas, Robert D. of Maryland,and William F. Shull of South Car-olina .. He is also survived by fivegrandchildren.

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Africa Business Conference at HarvardPromotes Dialogue on EntrepreneurshipBy Selam Daniel

Entrepreneurs and other partici-pants di cussed the business climatein Africa at the 2001 Africa Busi-ness Conference entitled' Creating,Growing, and Running the AfricanCompany."

The conference was held at theHarvard Bu iness chool from

arch 23-24."I gained a tremendous amount

of useful information and usefulcontact for financing, via privateequity or venture capital funds,entrepreneurial ventures in Africa,"said conference participant HakeemO. Sanusi G. "I also gained furtherenlightenment to help me developplans for the busines that I want todeploy in Africa," anusi added.

The conference attracted peopleof all nationalities, successful busi-nesspeople in Africa and aspiringentrepreneurs, including many MITstudents.

The two-day event includedkeynotes by oah Samara, founderand chief executive officer ofW orldSpace Corporation, and theHonorable Professor TurnerTiminipre Isoun, Minister of the

igeri n Federal Ministry of ci-ence and Technology and a formerMIT vi iting cientist.

Other activities included a careerfair, panels workshops, and a concertby the Afro-pean band Les ubians.

African busin face chaD ngdidi Okonkwo, a recent gradu-

ate of the Harvard Bu iness Schooland Executive Director of theFATE Foundation, highlighted theunique challenges that entrepre-neurs face when running an Africanbusiness.

Most African governments havenot created a very conducive envi-ronment for emerging entrepre-neurs, he said. Also, Okonkwo saidthat obstacles to importing into mostAfrican countries hinders manufac-turing efforts.

Okonkwo also cited weakinfra tructure and communicationas extra hurdles keeping officesfrom running at maximum effi-ciency. In addition, Africa faces alack of management capacity -difficulty of finding good peoplewilling to go to Africa and work.Other problems facing entrepre-neurs interested in African busi-

ness include access to accurateand timely data; a piring entrepre-neurs are forced to do their ownmarket re earch.

any peaker, panelists, andparticipants of the conference offeredadvice on dealing with these issues.

Panelist William Jimerson '92,who is an entrepreneur in Africa,said' 'risk' is the million dollarword when it comes to talkingabout bu ines in Africa. Youhave to present a business planwhich identifies the ri ks and aplan to off: et them, otherwise youwon't get the interest of manyinvestor ."

Other successful busines peoplenoted that although business inAfrica is unique in its challenges itis often more rewarding because ofthe inherent social obligations thatany African business carries.

any participants cited network-ing opportunities as a primary rea-son for attending the conference."It's important for Africans andthose interested in Africa to gettogether and use each other asresources, to learn and share - tobuild up that network. The wholepoint is to go back home," said

Mark Ardayfio M '9 .etworking opportunities were

also noted by other MIT partici-pants. Oreoluwa A. Adeyemi 00cited networking as his main pur-pose for participating in the con-ference. "It's a great opportunityto meet people doing busines inAfrica. It's useful to know who'working on what and to identifythe different problems in thedeveloping countries," Adeyemiaid.

plan imilar initiati eThe MIT Africa Internet Technol-

ogy Initiative is hosting a conferenceentitled ''Bridging the Digital Divide:The Role of Students" at MIT onApril 6. Attendees may registeronline at <httpi/rweb.mit.edu/mit-africaiAITllconference>.

A seminar series at MIT focusedon issues facing entrepreneurialventures in Africa is in the brain-storming stages. Victor K. allet'02 and other students are dis-cussing the idea with various facul-ty members and seeking the appro-priate faculty sponsor for thisseminar, which they hope to launchby this fall.

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Duke supporter Henry Wu '01 joined dozens of basketball fanson Kr,esge Oval last night to watch the Blue Devils defeat theArizona Wildcats 82-72 for the NCAA Division I men's basket-ball championship.

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CA PUS CONSTRUCTION UPDATELOBBY 7A major restoration to Lobby 7 begins with the installation of scaffold-ing during the last week in March. Preliminary testing of cleaningmethods will be conducted prior to the restoration. Work to take placethis spring and summer includes a cleaning of the dome and masonry,lighting replacements, and the opening of the skylight. Although somepedestrian traffic may be affected, primary accessibility coming in andout of the lobby will continue.MEDIA LAB ADDITIOInvestigatory utility work on Ames Street requiring the opening ofcertain manholes between Main and Amherst Streets could affectpedestrian and vehicular traffic.STATACENTERThe East Annex Parking Lot will be closed on Saturdays for the nextfew weeks to allow for the delivery of concrete trucks. However, theEast Garage will remain. The walkway from buildings 36 and 66 willalso be closed to ensure pedestrian safety.SIMMONS HALLThe installation of an electrical duct bank could result in utilityshutdowns and may affect pedestrian wayfinding, traffic and causevibrations.DREYFUS CHEMISTRY BUILDINGConstruction of the labs on the north end of the building has begun.Saws used to cut the concrete floors will cause a high noise levelbetween the hours of 6:00 AM and 2:00 PM.70 PACIFIC STREET (GRADUATE HOUSING)Site utility installation and the pouring of concrete foundations maygenerate dust, noise and cause disruption to vehicular traffic.

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Both Spring Weekend BandsRenowned for Musical SuccessSpring Weekend, from Page I

Roots will each put on a full howbefore the night is out.

Blue Traveller i releasing anew album called Bridge on ay .Garg hope that cuts from their newalbum will be performed during theconcert.

The Roots, la t year's Grammywinner in the category of Be tRapPerformance by a Duo or Group forYou got me, is also famou for thisyear' chart-topping ong Glitcheand Caravan. Their seventh albumis cheduled to be relea ed by theend of the year.

ID card can be u ed to bu ticketTicket for the concert will go on

ale thi Wedne day and may bepurchased with the MIT Card at the

ource or at the Coffeehouse."There has long been a signifi-

cant move toward e pan ding theuse of the [ IT] card,' esha aiaid." nd this make the concert

more accessible to tudent ."eshasai al 0 added that off-

campus participation i expected toincrease this year s concert atten-dance.

a senior and in my secondyear planing the pring Weekendevent, I expect this year's SpringWeekend to attract not only a largeMIT attendance but also a very sig-nificant off campus participation,"aid Seshasai.

Even though the concert thiyear i co ting over 50 percent morethan that of la t year, Garg andHodge said that the ticket priceremain at 7 for MIT tudent and

12 for non-students.

Old and new e ent on cheduletudents may expect to find at

thi year' pring Weekend tradi-tional event uch as the AXO Lip

ync which kicks off the weekendon Thur day. The I-Fair and theSpring Concert will both be held onFriday. On aturday the Kre geKickback will take place at theKresge barbeque pits from noonuntil 2 p.m. It i an outdoor concertfeaturing local bands, and a freelunch will also be provided to thepublic.

"We are e pecting popular-namevendors to spon or the event, aswell a hand out free stuff, ' Sesha-sai said.

Thi year s pring Weekend willalso include a re urrected MIT tra-dition: the Mr. MIT pageant.

"Alpha Tau Omega and theSpring Committee are joint sponsorsof this event," Hodges said. "Weencourage all living groups to spon-sor a nominee and help rai e fundsfor this charity event."

The candidates of the pageantwill compete in "talent, casual/for-mal wear and swimsuit competi-tions" to determine the "most talent-ed, personable crowd pleasing

individual on campus."The la t event of the weekend,

the "2001 Ody ey Ball," i the firstof its kind.

The Ball "i a joint effort of thePresident' office and the pringCommittee, 'Garg aid.

Thi event, inspired by the Mil-lennium BaH will take place out-doors under a large tent in front ofKresge and will offer dessertsserved under a "galactic theme."

More information about pringWeekend events can be found at<http://web.mit.edu/springlwww>.

olunteer neededWith the festivities of pring

Weekend fa t approaching, Garg,Hodges and eshasai are all anxiousto find volunteers to help make theevent a uccess.

'We welcome individuals, livinggroups or organizations to volunteerfor events throughout the wholeweekend," said Seshasai.

ot only will volunteers have achance to take part in the planningand help set up the event, but theywill also be able to take part in thefestivities.

"Volunteers for the concert willnot have to pay for the ticket," saidGarg.

Anyone interested in volunteer-ing for the event can visit the SpringWeekend website's volunteer sec-tion for further details or e-mail<spring@mit. edu. >

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Berenson on TrialFor a Second Time

Fonner MIT student Lori Beren-son who is on trial for a secondtime on charges of as i ting the

Tupac Amarurebel movementin Peru five yearago, last weekprofessed herinnocence and

claimed that he is a political pris-oner.

According to the AssociatedPress, Berenson said in a televisioninterview on Sunday, March 24, "Iam innocent of what they are charg-ing me with."

"I consider myself a politicalprisoner" Berenson said in theinterview, according to the AP.

Berenson's second trial followsthe revocation last August of a lifesentence handed down in 1996 by asecret military tribunal in her firsttrial.

On Thursday, according to theAP, Berenson's lawyer Jose LuisSandoval made a motion to exclude alarge portion of prosecution evidencethat was obtained by police whocovertly videotaped conversationsbetween her and another attorney.

The three-judge panel has notmade a decision on this motion.

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POLICE LOGThe following incidents were reported to the MIT Campus Police

between March l-April 1, 2001. Thi. ummary contains mo t inci-dents reported to the Campus Police but doe not include incidentsuch as medical shuttles, ambulance transfer. .fal. e alarms, general

service calls, etc.

arch 1: Massachusett Avenue bu stop, homeless person;Bldg. E25, homeless person leeping on steps; Bldg. E15, homelessperson; Bldg. E25, coat stolen, 220; Hayward Garage, two juvenilesarrested for trespa sing' Bldg. 10, ATM card left in machine and$100 withdrawn from account.

March 2: East Campus, annoying phone calls; Bldg. 10, coatstolen, $420; Bldg. 57, person refusing to leave area; Bldg. NW61,check and inquiry of individual.

arch 3: MacGregor, identity fraud; McCormick, report of miss-ing person, same later located; Windsor Lot, vehicle broken into andcamera equipment stolen, $3,480; Bldg. E39, suspicious person;Boston, Dale Francis of 27 Boylston St. #4, Jamaica Plain, Mass.arrested for disorderly person and other related charges.

March 4: Senior House, noise complaint; Bldg. W34, suspiciousactivity; Westgate lot, attempted break into a vehicle; Bexley, checkon student, advised to call home; Bldg. 36, suspicious person.

March 5: Westgate lot, suspicious vehicle; Bldg. 14, CPU stolen,later recovered; Boston, Theta Chi, report of snowball thrown at acar, smashing the windshield.

March 6: Boston, assist Boston Police, Theta Chi, unauthorizedpersons on roof and snowball fight; New House, window smashedfrom snowball; Westgate, Latasha Long arrested for domestic assault;Bldg. NW10, assist Cambridge Police with homeless person.

March 7: Du Pont, unwanted persons in gym; Student Center,check and inquiry, trespass warning issued.

March 8: Assist Cambridge Police at Westgate on a 911 hang-up,person attempting to make international telephone call; Bldg. 7,snowman hack on dome; Bldg. E28, suspicious activity; Student Cen-ter, Courses, suspicious person.

March 9: Westgate, stove fire, extinguished by resident; Bldg. 26,homeless person; Bldg. 68, report of person in building going throughtrash; Student Center, report of suspicious person.

March 10: East Campus, non-affiliated intoxicated person placedin protective custody of Cambridge Police; Bldg. N51, suspiciousperson.

March 11: Cambridge, WILG, report of homeless person;Bldg. W31, Jay-Hawn Lee of 10 Museum Way, Cambridge, Mass.,arrested on an outstanding warrant; Sloan lot, report of suspiciousperson; Albany Street, report of a disturbance, notified CambridgePolice; Student Center, Hugh Ennis of 84 Wheatland Ave. #2,Dorchester, Mass., arrested for larceny; Rockwell Cage, walletstolen containing $500 cash; Bldg. 26, report of a suspicious per-son, homeless.

March 12: Bldg. 9, 1) palm pilot stolen, $300; 2) office itemsstolen, $710; New House, bike stolen, $220; Bldg. 7, annoying phonecall; Du Pont, wallet stolen, $40; Bldg. N42, suspicious person; Bldg.37, report of suspicious person.

March 13: Bldg. E52, report of suspicious package, discovered tobe books; West Lot, vehicle broken into and attempt to steal same,2001 VW Jetta.

March 14: Massachusetts Avenue by 77, Joseph Marquez of 5Madison St., Cambridge, Mass., arrested on outstanding warrant;Bldg. 38, threats between MIT employee and construction worker;Bldg. NWlO, emergency line hang up call, responding officers dis-covered person attempting to make an international call.

March 15: Bldg. 9, homeless person tore papers off bulletinboard; Bldg. E60, officers respond to a report of a verbal disagree-ment; Bldg. 66, larceny of paper.

March 16: Senior House, officers conduct a well being check;Bldg. 66 and 68, report of a strange odor; Bldg. 2, report of suspi-cious activity.

March 17: Bldg. NWlO, noise complaint; Bldg. 66, report of per-sons leaving area with a couch; Bldg. 54, report of person stuck inrevolving door; Du Pont Gym, report of altercation; Main Street,assist Cambridge Police with vehicle accident.

March 18: Bldg. W31, report of a past assault; rear of Bldg.NW22, officers respond to a sudden death.

March 19: Bldg. 7, attempted hack discovered; Cambridge, No.6Club, sporting equipment stolen, $168; Bldg. 14, backpack stolen,$30; Green Hall, report of a suspicious package, discovered to be agift.

March 20: Bldg. E19, wallet containing $70 stolen and debitcredit card used; Bldg. 2, VCR stolen, unknown value; Du Pont,unauthorized youths in area.

March 21: Bldg. E40, wallet containing $60 stolen; Bldg. 18, lar-ceny of a pump, $544; Bldg. E17, vacuum stolen, $100; Bldg. E15,suspicious activity; Bldg. W20, assist Boston Police with serving anarrest warrant; Bldg. W31, disorderly person at MIT Police, samewas removed; Bldg. 68, suspicious person.

March 22: Bldg. N52, people sleeping in a room, persons identi-fied; New House, cell phone and cash stolen, $330; Student Center,suspicious activity; Bldg. E51, VCR stolen, $500; Bldg. E19, suspi-cious person, trespass warning issued; Edgerton, homeless person.

March 23: Bldg. NWIO, illegal use of stolen MIT ID; Bldgs.18 and 66, in three men's restrooms sinks were ripped off thewalls; Ashdown, larceny of mail; Bldg. E60, wallet and contentsstolen, $80 cash; Bldg. 6, larceny of a suitcase and backpack,unknown value; Ashdown, noise complaint; Lobby 7, hack; MainLot, person called from cell phone to state he was stuck in his carand can't get free; Du Pont, unauthorized entry; Bldg. NW61, sus-picious person.

March 24: Student Center, 1) male taken into custody for twooutstanding warrants' 2) suspicious activity; Tang Hall, suspiciouspersons' Bldg. 24, construction tools stolen, $2,000; Bldg. 16, laserstolen, unknown value.

March 25: Boat House, report of female screaming, unable tolocate any problem; Briggs Field, received call from State Police stat-ing they received a call about a 'fight and a possible gun involvedother party had left and no gun was involved; Bldg. 5, damage to acomputer and larceny of books, $60.

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Baltimore Delivers Hughes TalkBy ichael J. RingEDITOR I CHIEF

aJifomia Institute of TechnologyPresident and obel laureate Dr.David Baltimore delivered the 2001Ho ard Hughe Lecture entitled"The any Fa ets of -Kappa B,"on Friday, arch 23 in a packed 10-250.

The lecture, hosted by the Biolo-gy Undergraduate tudents' oci-ation (BU ) in luded an hour pre-sentation followed by a hortque tion-and-an wer period.

"We were fortunate to have Dr.Baltimore come," said Elaine Y. Wan'01, a former president ofBU whohelped organize the event.

While Baltimore is a popular fig-ure nationwide, Wan id that he waseager to return to MIT. He hadn'tcome back here to give a talk since1997 and quickly said ye ," Wanaid.

Wan added that the visit hadbeen planned for a year by herself,Lucy Q. hen '00, and other mem-bers ofBU A.

Baltimore pea on -Kappa BBaltimore did research on

nuclear factor-Kappa B in the late19 0 and early 1990 . Baltimoresaid that F-Kappa B is a tran-scription factor stored in the cyto-pIa m of the cell involved inresponses to stimuli, typicallyinflammation or infection. "Thepicture we now have of NF-KappaB i that of a rapid response sys-tem," Baltimore said.

He explained that NF-Kappa Bconsi ts of proteins which, when trig-gered, cause a series of events to pre-vent other ubstances from killingcells. Cells without NF-Kappa B arevulnerable to attack from substanceswhich destroy cells, Baltimore added.

Recent biological research sug-gests that NF-Kappa B may be inhib-ited in the progression of mv virus,for example, and may also beinvolved in the working of a tumor

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Dr. David Baltimore, the president of Caltech and a Nobel laureatein physiology or medicine, lectures on "The Many Facets of NF-Kappa B."

necro is factor called TNF-alpha."It was a very technical and spe-

cific lecture, " Wan said.

Baltimore converses with studentsAmong the events on Balti-

more's schedule were meetings withgraduate and undergraduate studentsfrom the department of biology.

At the undergraduate luncheon,Baltimore addressed the subject ofhuman cloning. Wan, noting that thetopic was timely as ProfessorRudolf Jaenisch had recently testi-fied before Congress on the subject,said that cloning was "the mostinteresting thing [Baltimore] talkedabout" during his visit.

According to Wan, Baltimorestressed that American scientists

should take a clear stand againstcloning before further controversyunfolds.

Wan said that Baltimore dis-cussed patent issues at the graduatestudent reception and also comparedthe environments at MIT and Cal-tech. Baltimore said the atmosphereat Caltech was a little cozierbecause of that institution's smallerize, Wan added.

Baltimore served as a professorof biology at MIT and foundingdirector of the Whitehead Institutefor Biomedical Research beforebecoming president of Caltech.

Baltimore shared the Nobel Prizein physiology or medicine in 1975for his work in discovering thereverse transcriptase enzyme.

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Fencing Tops ManyDivision I SchoolsFencing, from Page 24

CAA Division I regionals held atBoston College.

At this tournament, Philip W.iller '01 finished in fifth place in

men's sabre, closely followed bysquad mate Burstein in sixth. Inmen's foil, Chadwick gave an amaz-ing performance to capture 12thplace, competing against fencerssuch a Jed Dupree,(Columbia/Barnard) who later wenton to become the CAA nationalchampion.

On the women's side Purcellcame in second, 10 ing only a singlebout to the NCAA national champi-on, Sada Jacobson, while squadmate McKeehan followed closelybehind in fourth place.

MIT qualified five fencers,Miller, Burstein, Chadwick, Purcell,and McKeehan, for the CAA Divi-sion I National Championships.

Two more fencers had outstand-ing performances: Smith placedninth in women's epee, and Allenplaced 12th in women's foil. Smithand Allen were both nominated forat large selection for nationals.

Burstein beats world championTwo weekends ago, the five

national qualifiers, head coach JarekKoniusz and assistant coach EvanEfstathiou '00 set out to Wisconsinfor the NCAA National Champi-onships. Each qualifier had to faceoff with 23 of the top fencers in thecountry over two days of competi-tion.

The men's sabre competitionproved rough, with U.S. OlympianKeeth Smart and junior world.champion Ivan Lee present at thetournament. Miller and Burstein,however, stepped up to the chal-lenge and gave the two teammates aperformance they will remember.

Lee, who went on to win thechampionships, was defeated byBurstein in an emotionally and tech-nically challenging bout.

Their performance during thetwo days of the competition placedMiller 15th and Burstein 21st in theU.S. collegiate fencing arena.

Chadwick also had tough com-petition to face but he fought hisbest to place 22nd in men's foil.

Purcell captures Division I bronzeThe women national qualifiers,

Purcell and McKeehan, also had animpressive two days. Purcell fin-ished second after the two days of

pools but was then defeated by a sin-gle tou h in the emifmals. Purcellwent on to capture the bronze medal.

quad mate McKeehan, at herfir t C ationals, fmished herseason by placing 13th in the tour-nament. In her la t bout of the com-petition and this fencing sea onMcKeehan went up against adaJacobson, the AA women'ssabre champion. McKeehan provedto be the only fencer at nationals(and during the entire sea on) todefeat Jacobson, winning 5-2 in astrong bout.

IT ranked fir t in Division IIIThe coaches poll held before the

tournament ranked the MITwomen's team 11th in the United

tates, while the men were ranked13th. At the end of the tournament,combined results from the men'sand women's team placed them12th within the U.S. Division Iranking. MIT is the top ranked Divi-sion III school in U.S. intercolle-giate fencing and placed higher thanmany Division I schools.

Fencers aim for world rankingsPurcell has brought home the

gold from the CAA Division IChampionships last year and thebronze at this year's tournament.She is currently ranked third in theU.S. team rankings and 21st in theworld rankings for women's sabre.Besides her victory at the Junior PanAmerican Gameslast year, Purcellhas also been competing in senior"A" World Cups. This year, herresults include eighth place inPeabody, Mass., 28th place inTabuerbischofsheim, Germany, 26thplace in Orleans, France, and 30thin Budapest, Hungary. Her nextWorld Cup foray is going to be aU.S. team event in Koblenz, Ger-many in two weeks. Coach Koniuszwas asked to accompany the U.S.team for this event.

Efstathiou was named the king ofthe castle by local papers after hisrecent victory in the ancient castle ofOrebro, Sweden. Efstathiou foughtagainst fencers from Sweden, Fin-land, Great Britain and others to cap-ture the gold medal in the individualevent. However, one gold was notenough, and he recruited a team tocapture a second gold medal in theteam event. More recently, Efstathiouattended a B Cup in Edinburgh, Scot-land, coming in ninth, and visited theSenior Provencial Championships inToronto with Nora Szasz G, where

TEAM PHOTO

MIT men's fencing team: (back row, left to right) Nora Szasz '99 (asst. coach), Jarek Koniusz (coach),Arjun R. Narayanswamy '02, Richard D. Burstein '02, Chengwei Pei '03, Doug J. Quattrochi '04, Timo-thy R. Kreider '04, Tin lun Au '04, Brendan Miller G, Birendro M. Roy '02, Michael P. Pihulic '04, Evanl. Efstathiou '00 (asst. coach), Tan T. Trinh '97 (coach); (front row, left to right) Brian T. Rosenfeld'04, Oliver J. Chadwick '02, Jason M. levine '03, Ali H. Ibrahim '01, Philip W. Miller '01, Andre D. VanHom '01, Robert Hooker '03, Anthony P. Reinen '03, Neal K. Devaraj '02, Matthew R. levy '04.

TEAM PHOTO

MIT women's fencing team: (back row, left to right) Nora Szasz '99 (asst. coach), Jarek Koniusz(coach), Jennifer A. lue '03, Emily E. Cofer '04, J. Joan Hon '01, Dianne K. Allen '01, Natalie E. Cusano'02, Christine A. Yee '03, Evan l. Efstathiou '00 (asst. coach), Tan T. Trinh '97 (coach); (front row, leftto right) Danielle M. Morse '02, Jen A. McKeehan '01, Clarissa Y. Smith '04, Priscilla del Castillo '04,Sasha R. Manoosingh '03, Susan A. Juan '02, Rayka Yokoo '02.

they both captured the bronze medals 12th in women's epee.in men's sabre and women's epeerespectively. Szasz also broughthome a silver medal in the teamevent. Efstathiou is currently ranked150th in the world.

Eight MIT fencers also attendedorth American Cups and placed

within top the 48, earning U.S.national points. They are Allen inwomen's foil, Caprice Gray '00and Purcell in women's sabre,Szasz in women's epee, BrianBower '99, Burstein, and Efs-tathiou in men's sabre, and Chad-wick in men's foil. Most notably,this season Purcell placed sixth inwomen's sabre, and Szasz placed

AARON D. MIHALIK-THE TECH

Andrea E. Noronha '03 grabs the ball from a Wellesley player during the women's lacrosse gameon Saturday. MIT lost to Wellesley College 18-5.

Koniusz coaches MIT to victoriesCoach Koniusz has been a head

coach for the MIT varsity fencingteams for the past seven years. Dur-ing this time he managed to createtwo closely knit and highly compet-itive teams that qualify an increas-ing number of fencers to the CAADivision I ational Championships.MIT qualified a total of four fencersbetween 1992 and 1998, four in1999, four in 2000, and five fencersthis year.

Results do not come without hardwork. Fencing has one of the longestathletic seasons. The two-hour fenc-

ing practices start in the early fall andcontinue until spring break. Outsideof reguar practices, coach Koniuszalso gives several hour-long lessonseach day. During the season, MITfences in 11 day-long competitions.

Coach Koniusz's successes start-ed far before he came to MIT. Hefenced men's sabre for Poland, fin-ishing his competitive career with asilver medal at the World Cup in1989. He then came to the UnitedStates, first teaching in ew YorkCity, and later accepting a positionat MIT. Recently the Polish FencingFederation also honored coachKoniusz by an award for his contri-bution to the sport of fencing.

AARO D, MIHALIK-THE TECH

Matthew P. Van Home '02 runs past a Massachusetts Mar-itime Academy player during the men's lacrosse match onSaturday, March 24. MIT won the match 19-8.

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Caroline . Purcell '02 and squadleader Dianne K. Allen '01 capturedthe golds in women's sabre andwomen's foil re pectively. This wasfollowed by fre hman Clari sa V.Smith '04 capturing the silver medalin women's epee. This feat wasespecially impressive, since mithstarted fencing only thi pa t fall,while ome of her opponents hadclose to a decade of experience.Finally, Joan Hon '01 and JenniferA. McKeehan '01, both of whomhad started fencing at MIT, broughthome the bronze medals in women'sfoil and women' abre re pectively.

qualifie nine for regionalThe MIT team, however, did not

stop at the ew England level. Eachteam qualified nine people, the max-imum nwnber that can qualify fromany chool, to compete at the

MIT' men's and women'sfencing team turned in anotherimpressive season by leading all

CAA Division IIIschools and dominat-ing competitive Divi-ion I programs.

MIT women fin-ished the season with

an impressive 18-3 record to win theew England Championships, while

the men followed behind with a 14-5 season record to capture secondplace behind Brown University.

encers place at e EnglandThese team succes es were

backed up with several individualmedals. The men's team capturedtwo bronze medals with Oliver J.Chadwick '02 in men' foil andRichard D. Burstein '02 in men'ssabre. On the women's ide captain Fencing, Page 23

NCAA Division IFencing Rankings

Place chool Bouts on1 t. John's Univer ity 1802 PennsyJvania tate University 1723 otreDame 1534 Stanford University 1'"'95 Princeton University 1I26 ColumbiaIBamard 1087 University of Pennsylvania 858 Ohio tate Univer ity 29 Yale University 8010 Wayne tate University 5811 Temple Univer ity 5212 4913 Rutgers Univer ity 4614 orthwestern University 45

15T ew York University 4315T U.S. Air Force cademy 4317 C, Chapel Hill 3518 Brown University 3319 Harvard University 2820 Duke University 21

AARON D. M/HALlK-THE TECH

Jessica Hall '02 returns a shot during the women's tennismatch on Saturday. MIT lost to Vassar College 9-0.

Dianne K. Allen '01 (right) lunges at an opponent during a meet earlier this season.

Glossary of Fencing Terms

FoilThe foil has a flexible rectangular blade, approxi-

mately 35 inches in length, weighing less than onepound. Points are scored with the tip of the blade andmust land within the torso of the body.

The valid target area in foil is the torso, from theshoulders to the groin, front and back. It does notinclude the arms, neck, head and legs. The foilfencer s uniform includes a metallic vest (called alame) which covers the valid target area, so that avalid touch will register on the scoring machine. Asmall, spring-loaded tip is attached to the point of thefoil and is connected to a wire inside the blade. Thefencer wears a body cord inside his or her uniformwhich connects the foil to a reel wire, connected tothe scoring machine.

There are two scoring lights on the machine. Onehows a green light when a fencer is hit, and one

shows a red light when his or her opponent is hit. Atouch landing out ide the valid target area (thatwhich is not covered by the lame) is indicated by awhite light. These "off target" hits do not count inthe scoring, but they do stop the fencing action tem-porarily.

EpeeThe epee, the descendant of the dueling word,

is similar in length to the foil, but is heavier, weigh-ing approximately 27 ounces, with a larger guard(to protect the hand from a valid hit) and a much

tiffer blade. Touches are scored only with thepoint of the blade. The entire body is the valid tar-get area.

The blade is wired with a spring-loaded tip at theend that completes an electrical circuit when it isdepressed beyond a pressure of 750 grams. Thiscauses the colored bulb on the scoring machine tolight. Because the entire body is a valid target area,the epee fencer' uniform does not include a lame.

Off-target hits do not register on the machine.

abreThe sabre is the modem version of the slashing

cavalry sWOTd,and is. similar in length and weight tothe foil. The major difference is that the sabre is athrusting weapon as well as a cutting weapon. The.target area is from the bend of the hips (both front~and back), to the top of the head, simulating the cav-alry rider on a horse. The sabre fencer's uniformincludes a metallic jacket (lame), which covers thetarget area to register a valid touch on the scoringmachine. The mask is different from foil arid epee,with a metallic covering since the head isvahd tar-get area.

Just as in foil, there are two scoring ligh~ on themachine. One shows a green light when a fencer ishit, and one shows a red. light when the opponent ishit. Off-target hits do not register on the machine.

The Weapons

Foil, epee and sabre are the three weapons usedin the sport of fencing. While it is not unusual forfencers to compete in all three events, they generallychoose to develop their skills in one weapon.

Foil and epee are point-thrusting weapon. Sabreis a point-thrusting as well as a cutting weapon. Thetarget areas differ for the three weapons, though allthree are score electrically.

ObjectThe main object of a fencing bout i to effective-

ly score 15 points (in direct elimination play) or fivepoints (in preliminary pool play) on your opponentbefore he or she scores that number on you. Eachtime a fencer cores a touch, he or she receives apoint. Direct elimination matche consi t of threethree-minute periods.

Rigbt-Of- WayOne of the most difficult concepts to visualize in

foil and sabre fencing is the rule of right-of-way.This rule was established to eliminate apparentlysimultaneous attacks by two fencers.

In essence, right-of-way is the differentiation ofoffense and defense, made by the referee. The differ-ence is important only when both the red and greenlights go on at the same time in foil and sabre. Whenthis happens, the winner of the point is the one whothe referee determined was on offense at the time thelights went on.

Epee does not use the right-of-way in keepingwith its dueling origin - the fencer who first gainsthe touch earns the point. Or, if'both fencers hit with-in 1125 th of a second of each other, both earn a'point. However, it is equally important to have asound defense for epee, since the entire body mustbe protected from a touch.

Source: US Fencing Association

aturday, April 7Coed ailing, Metro Series 2Women's Sailing, Emily Wick Trophy

oftball vs. Mount Holyoke College, 12:00 p.m.Men's Tennis vs. Clark University, 1:00 p.m.Women's Lacrosse vs. pringfield College, 1:00 p.m.

unda, prj) 8Lightweight Crew vs. U.S. Military AcademyWomen's ailing, Sloop Shrew TrophyMen sTennis vs. Bowdoin College, 2:00 p.m.

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oftball vs. Babson College, 3:30 p.m.Men s Lacrosse vs. Connecticut College 4:00 p.m.Women's Lacrosse vs. Endicott College, 5:00 p.m.

Tue da, pril 3Men' Baseball v . WPI, 3 :00 p.m.Men's Tennis vs. Tufts University, 3:00 p.m.Women's Lacrosse vs. Babson College, 4:00 p.m.

edne da, pril 4Men's Tennis vs. WPI, 3:00 p.m.Men's Lacrosse vs. UMass-Boston, 4:00 p.m.

Thur da, pril 5en s Baseball v . Clark University, 3:00 p.m,

Women's Lacrosse vs. Colby- awyer College,5:00p.m.

Friday, pri16en's Baseball vs. Brandei University, 3:00 p.m.